Author: John HaywardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The New-England and New-York Law-register, for the Year 1835
Author: John HaywardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Catalogue of the Library of the General Court
Author: Catalogue of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Catalogue of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: [Anonymus AC09764867]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue
Author: 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.
Catalogue of the Library of the General Court
Author: Massachusetts State Library (BOSTON, Massachusetts)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Catalogue of the Library of the General Court
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891
Author: Joseph WilliamsonPublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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