Lavasseur

[Jackdaw]

Hi

I'm interested , as stated in a previous post, about Oliver Lavasseur . Thanks to those who have offered information to date

I've spent a lot of time researching the net and would be interested to know of any of his activities in the Atlantic or if there are any accounts, contemporary or otherwise, on his trial and subsequent hanging at Bourbon ( Reunion ). I'm not interested in the subsequent hunt for his treasure.

I suspect there isn't a published or known account of his trial and hanging so if anyone can give me some idea of how pirate hanging would have proceeded in Bourbon, a Portugese colony in the 1720's I will be most grateful, I know about other hangings but not how the Portugese may have done things

Excellent forums, enjoying reading the posts

Thanks

Jackdaw

[Jackdaw]

Hi

I'm interested , as stated in a previous post, about Oliver Lavasseur . Thanks to those who have offered information to date

I've spent a lot of time researching the net and would be interested to know of any of his activities in the Atlantic or if there are any accounts, contemporary or otherwise, on his trial and subsequent hanging at Bourbon ( Reunion ). I'm not interested in the subsequent hunt for his treasure.

I suspect there isn't a published or known account of his trial and hanging so if anyone can give me some idea of how pirate hanging would have proceeded in Bourbon, a Portugese colony in the 1720's I will be most grateful, I know about other hangings but not how the Portugese may have done things

Excellent forums, enjoying reading the posts

Thanks

Jackdaw

.... sorry I meant that Bourbon was of course a French colony at that time, not Portugese as I stated in the above .... whoops

[Fox]

I'm not overly familiar with the French archives, but it's not impossible that an account of his trial remains in the Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris, or possibly in some colonial repository.

Have you read William Snelgrave's account of his time as a captive of Cocklyn and la Buse?