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Dward Teach was a Britol Man born, but had ailed ome Time out of Jamaica in Privateers, in the late French War; yet tho’ he had often ditinguihed himelf for his uncommon Boldnes and peronal Courage, he was never raied to any Command, till he went a-pyrating, which I think was at the latter End of the Year 1716, when Captain Benjamin Hornigold put him into a Sloop that he had made Prize of, and with whom he continued in Conorthip till a little while before Hornigold urrendered.

In the Spring of the Year 1717, Teach and Hornigold ailed from Providence, for the Main of America, and took in their Way a Billop from the Havana, with 120 Barrels of Flower, as alo a Sloop from Bermuda, Thurbar Mater, from whom they took only ome Gallons of Wine, and then let him go; and a Ship from Madera to South-Carolina, out of which they got Plunder to a coniderable Value.

After cleaning on the Coat of Virginia, they returned to the Wet-Indies, and in the Latitude of 24, made Prize of a large French Guiney Man, bound