Carolina Buccaneer
-
Posts
19 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Posts posted by Carolina Buccaneer
-
-
I order me a copy, looks like great reading, Ahhhhh!!!
-
Pat Croce, who own's Pirate Soul Museum in Key West , Florida is helping to produce and make a major movie on BlackBeard, to come out in 2010.
-
Nice article...shame the piece isn't from the Golden Age...
I thought the same here, I saw the date 1780, oh well, not the Golden Age 1690 to 1720, but close, but like you said, an interesting artical.
-
I found this while searching the web for the true Jolly Roger's, thought all ye Pirate's would like to see this, I thought it was very interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ire/6222054.stm
-
I know this has nothing to do with pirate history, but I thought I would let everyone know about this if ye live along the east coast of the U.S., I just check out accu weather, saying the storm in the Caribbean right now could strengthen into a hurricane early next week and could be a threat to South & North Carolina and even New England.So, keep a sharpe eye out I tell ya, she could a blowing come next week.
-
Here's a website I found that talks about the true Jolly Roger's and their true designs, pretty interesting.
-
The Beards seem to have been ousted from Scotland and Ireland by King George I which explains damnation to the king and "deth to Spotswood!" James (dad) ended up in Charleston and Bath. Possible brother of James, William, ended up in Barbados with apparently a few other oustees that will become figures in Edwards life later.
Edward and Susannah Beards mother is unknown, but is safe to say she died before James, her husband, before 1711. there were no other known siblings. Susannah and her husband Martin inherited the 600 acres that we visited.
At last !!I got the book in the mail today !
Ah , got some good reading I do .
I just looked thru the book before starting to read it, but it say's Blackbeards flag was a death head and not the design we are so use to, with the devil skeleton and hour glass and bleeding heart.
I've read this before on another Pirate forum by a man named Foxe, he has his own website about the true designs on diffrent Pirate flags.
He say's alot of them were made up later and wasn't the real flag design.
What's your thoughts on this ?
-
MODS-- if this belongs somewhere else please move it. thanks
For once I am going to be serious though.
For those who were at Beaufort, my appologies for sneeking out at the last minute. I tried to get all my see ya laters in.... but i had to meet someone
While at the Beaufort invasion this weekend I was fortunate enought to spend a bit of time with my friend Kevin Duffus author of The Last Days of Black Beard The Pirate. Not a plug for Kevin -well Ok it is- but folks, if you are interested in a different view than what has been circulating for the past couple hundred years read the book. On the way to Beaufort, Graces GPS sent us way off course via a ferry resulting in an erie sequence of deja-vu from when i was eight years old. but anyhow after relaying this story to Kevin, he explains that there was another whole issue that i was unaware of close by. This led to a wonderful fieldtrip on the way home.
We took a left, then a Right, then turned around and another left.. or was it a right? we ultimately ended up walking through a field and entered a patch of woods where we were greeted by balast stone headmarkers of no less than a dozen guests. we don't know which one she was but Kevin has narrowed the site down to the final residence of Black Beards sister Susannah Beard Franck!
I can't even begin to explain the feeling of knowing that I was one of a very small handful of people that had come to visit her in the last 200 years, that we were most likely standing on the grounds of the last place Black Beard visited, took care of daily business and made plans before his death and that only a few people know where this is! The five of us were standing on the shore just absorbing the scene and I got to thinking about Adventure sitting at the mouth of the creek, a long boat rowing ashore with the man I've done so much reading and learning about on board visiting his family and just wondered what he did before he headed back to sea. Kevin asked what I thought of the whole thing. I just sat there for a second...... a clear still day became cloudy, the wind picked up, white caps formed, and a few rain drops fell. All I could say was we were not alone out there. I don't know if it was Susannah or her brother Edward- but we were definitely not alone!
We can read the books and put on our outfits for a weekend and visit the sites. We can sit in front of our monitors and argue about bucket boots till we are blue in the face. But I have never experienced living history like this. I have done my darnedest to portray my characters as accurately as I can based on the information we have. But after a wonderful weekend with many good friends, doing what we love and being able to conclude with a humble visit to an unknown, non-commercialized bit of history this important- all i can say is thank you all for a wonderful education!!! Thank you Kevin for introducing me to Susannah!
I know how you felt, when you visited that gravesite, I've had the same feeling while walking thru old cemeteries , you can't describe it till you do it.
I love looking at old tombstones, their like a museum to me.
I wonder if blackbeard didn't have more than one sister, you would think he would have, in that time period there was very large families, just him and a sister doesn't sound right, I'm sure he might of had some brother's too, just my thought's of doing genealogical research myself thru the years.
-
since there seems to be a bit of interest, and more than one or two have had a chance to read the book now- BUMP!
Carolina buccaneer and casketchris, there is a lot of amazing research that kevin dug into to find his information. Is it a sure thing? maybe not in some cases, but the way he presents it sure fills in a lot of gaps and ads an actual timeline to work from.
On page 226, a Beard Family connection is laid out and makes the connections with Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet, John Quelsh, William Howard and the crew from ocracoke. Now that must have been one heck of a web to untangle! It starts in Barbados works to Col. Daniel, Quelch family, Bonnet family, Beard family and then breaks down to the offspring and associates. There are documented branches and suspected connections- so is it absolute? No, but its a good start.
I order me a copy of the book Friday, should get it this week, I thought I would have it in the mail today, not there yet, since I only live 4 hours from Wilmington, snail mail , MERCY !!
By what you have said about the book, should be interesting reading, I read your story about finding the grave of Blackbeards sister, interesting, did Kevin put any pictures of the grave site in the book ?
I would love to see that myself in person since I live in North Carolina.
I always thought Blackbeard had to have had some decendents, him being with so many women in his lifetime.
Did Kevin have any information about possible decendents ?
I thought the part I read on the web about them possibly finding one of Blackbeards shipmates skeleton in a family buriel site in the eastern part of N.C., and they have the Skeleton in Raliegh I believe, he talked about getting DNA test done on it, to prove it's the man he thinks it is, did he talk more about this in the book ?
Well, I want let you tell me everything about it, I want to read it myself, HA !!
Where's he going to be at to talk about the book you said ?
-
I have been looking for it on DVD for quite some time.
I bought mine from the History channel ., They may still have it ., you can try there.
You can also order it from the North Carolina Maritime Museum store, go here:
http://www.NCmaritimemuseum.com/blteatsea.html
-
'tis a great book with very much documented research behind it. I'm reading it for the second time and spent an hour or two with the author down in Hampton at The Blackbeard Festival. He's a great guy and easy to talk to. . . if you get the chance to see him at a booksigning. . .take it!
Yea, I happen to find out about the book while looking for any decendents of Blackbeard on the web and came onto his book, glad I found it, I just order me a copy this past Friday, should get it this week, by what you said, it sounds like great reading, I would love to meet the author one day, he lives in Raleigh, N.C., which is about a 2 hour drive from me.
According to his website, he's making a DVD about the book, should be a great DVD to get also when it comes out.
-
Hey, just a minute here!
How can I order this book "The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate"?
I goe t' that link and it say this title be DVD and will naught be ready until "Spring of 2007"
Do I ha'e t' wait until after Apocalypse for th' calendar to roll o'er???
Here's were I order my copy from, try here:
North Carolina Maritime Museum
-
Agreed 100%! Just wish it was on DVD!
Yea, I bougth a copy on VCR tape when it first came out, I don't know why they haven't put it on dvd, it's such true to life history of the Pirates, no skeletons walking around like on POTC 1, and 2 & 3 got wrost.
-
I just bought a copy of:
"Silver", by Edward Chupack, It's the fictional life story of Long John Silver, of Treasure Island fame.
I've read two chapters so far, pretty good book .
It covers his beginnings as a pickpocket on the streets of Bristol, England , Taken to sea by Black John, Silver soon learns the arts of the sword, saber, and pistol. He makes his trade in plundering, cheating, ransacking, and murder--more murders than he can bother to count.
Silver writes his life story while on a ship as a captive by the British, being shipped back to Newgate Square in England to be hanged.
it covers areas from England to the east coast of America, from New England to the Carolina's.
You can see the book on Amazon books.
-
I still think one of the best Pirate movie's made was "Treasure Island", with Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed and Christopher Lee.
"Dame your eyes"!!!!!!!!
-
Here's something about the book by Kevin P. Duffus:
-
Hello ,
just joined this forum , I was born and raised in the Carolinas, home of Blackbeard, I've always enjoyed Pirate history, I believe I might have some Pirate blood in me family.
The Carolinas is loaded with all kinds of pirate history.
Ah ! Thank ya !
I live in North Carolina, near Salisbury.
about a 4hour drive from the coast.
I go stay in a beach house at Holden Beach every summer, just got back last week.
I just odered the book " The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate" by North Carolina author Kevin P. Duffus, he claims in his book that Teach wasn't Blackbeards last name, he believes it was Beard, and that he was born in the Carolina's and not England.
he spent so may years researching genealogical records and taking with historians, I believes he's on to something, he's say's alot of the things we know about Blackbeard today was made up years after the Golden age of Pirates, and people believed them.
Here's his website if you want to order the book:
www.thelostlight.com
-
Hello ,
just joined this forum , I was born and raised in the Carolinas, home of Blackbeard, I've always enjoyed Pirate history, I believe I might have some Pirate blood in me family.
The Carolinas is loaded with all kinds of pirate history.
Pirates of the Whydah
in Pyrate Pop
Posted
Yes, it's amazing how well all the finds are still in so good condition after 300 years.
I have three of of Barry Cliffords books, great reading !
"Expedtion Whydah" ," Return to Treasure Island and the search for Captian Kid" and "The Lost Fleet, The Discovery of a Sunken Armada From the Golden Age of Piracy,"