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I think there's a long thread about this somewhere here...

Short answer: all "British" privateers, including colonial, were entitled to fly a red ensign with a Union Jack in the upper-staff corner (or, prior to 1707, a St. George's cross in the corner). They could also fly a variety of other flags of their own choosing, but were prohibited from flying the Union flag itself, which was reserved for ships of the Royal Navy.

Foxe

"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707


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