Author: George GibbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Gibbs Family of Rhode Island
Author: George GibbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Author: Joseph GibbsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of confessions. Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology that informs pirate lore to this day. Joseph Gibbs takes up the task of separating fact from fiction to explicate the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island - in an investigation that reveals a life as riveting as the legend it replaces.Jeffers was the child of a Revolutionary War privateer captain with his own history in the rough work. After a heroic career in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, Jeffers eschewed military life and took to the privateer trade himself. As Charles Gibbs, pirate, he sailed from the ports of Charleston and New Orleans to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still-shockingly violent career of Charles Gibbs across the seas and, in the process, challenges and discredits much of his self-made mythology.Gibbs recounts Jeffers' well-documented role in the infamous mutiny and murders in 1830 aboard the brig Vineyard while the vessel was carrying a load of Mexican silver. The pirate was captured the following year and brought to New York. The case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial, which led to their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island.In addition to recounting the exploits of a ruthless cutthroat, The Confessions of Charles Gibbs tells the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation. Carefully researched, engagingly written, and enhanced by twenty illustrations, this is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island
Author: Additions and Corrections to the First Series of Rhode Island Historical Tracts
Author: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Vol. 2 indexed by Robert & Catherine Barnes.
Little Compton Families
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806347031
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The town of Little Compton, Rhode Island was founded by a band of explorers from Plymouth Colony. From its inception Little Compton has been a bastion of Mayflower ancestry, including that of the Wilbour family of compiler Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Mr. Wilbour devoted much of his life to compiling genealogies of his own and other families of Little Compton. Based upon extensive research in primary sources and featuring numerous illustrations, Little Compton Families is Benjamin Franklin Wilbour's legacy to the descendants of some 200 families, many of whom are traced back to the middle of the 17th century.
Activities of the Commission and Complete-final Report of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission ...
Author: United States George Washington Bicentennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. in Two Volumes. Volume I
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
This work contains all of the articles on Rhode Island families that had been published in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" since 1846. Except for articles relating to the immigrant origins of Rhode Island families, which have appeared elsewhere, this has many of the best genealogical articles of the last 140 years, many by leading genealogists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A lengthy Introduction by Gary B. Roberts, Director of Publications at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, gives a picture of the current state of Rhode Island genealogy and has an updating of his Bibliography of 100 Colonial Rhode Island Families.
The Banisters of Rhode Island in the American Revolution
Author: Marian Mathison DesrosiersPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476681546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
When Thomas Banister fought for the British during the American Revolution, his farm and business were confiscated. He was exiled in far-off Nova Scotia, before he returned to a secluded life on Long Island. His older brother, John Banister married with a child, swore allegiance to the United Colonies, then witnessed the destruction of his Newport lands by the British Army. Convinced British laws supported remuneration, John left for England, where he sought justice for four years. His wife, Christian Stelle Banister, managed the family property and raised their son while the state threatened confiscation and the French Army lived in Newport. Tracing the lives of three young Americans during the Revolution, this study of the Banister family of Rhode Island contributes to an understanding of the war's effects on the lives of ordinary people.
Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman
Author: William Eaton FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description