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Beyond New England’s cold harbors and rocky capes, a rich, lightly guarded coast draws men ready to plunder.
In The Pirates of the New England Coast (1630–1730), George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds follow sea crime through fishing towns, hidden harbors and colonial courts. A Maine trader turns raider, privateers cross into piracy, and William Kidd faces arrest in Boston. The coast offers opportunity, but capture brings judgment and punishment.
Court papers, letters, sermons and old newspaper reports carry this history. The authors trace the passage from lawful privateering to robbery, follow Samuel Bellamy and the Whydah toward Cape Cod, and examine how colonial towns respond to pirates. Rather than a single adventure, the book offers a documentary view of the people who raid, pursue, judge and hang.
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- A coast open to danger Explore the long, broken shoreline where scattered settlements leave rich waters lightly guarded.
- The step into piracy Follow sailors whose legal commissions give way to raids beyond the limits of privateering.
- Kidd behind the legend Meet the captain backed by powerful men, then follow his path to arrest in Boston.
- Treasure lost off Cape Cod Encounter Samuel Bellamy and the loss of the Whydah, a captured former slave ship.
- Justice on the shore See how trials, sermons and punishments reveal the colonies’ response to sea robbery.
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- Hard seas and poor pay breed pirates
- Privateers and buccaneers train the later pirates
- Trade laws make smugglers friends of pirates
- The first pirates and the first laws
- A Dutch pilot and a frigate's pilot turn pirate
- Kidd and Tew show how thin the line was
- Quelch hangs for gold taken from Portuguese ships
- Bellamy's ship breaks up on Cape Cod
- Ned Low rules the sea and Ashton escapes him
- Harris, Phillips and Fly, and the pirates' world
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Les pirates de la côte de la Nouvelle-Angleterre (1630–1730)
by George Francis Dow; John Henry Edmonds · 1923
A Marblehead fisherman lives alone on Roatan after fleeing pirate Ned Low, one of many true New England sea tales.
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Why would a sailor choose a life that ends on a gallows? The sayings of the sea answer it.
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Hard seas and poor pay breed pirates
Why did men go on the account, as pirates called it? Sailors gave plain answers in old sea sayings. They spoke of hard work, low pay, bad food and cruel commanders. A seaman before the mast was little better than a slave.
Captain John Smith saw the pattern in 1630. Wherever seas are busy, he wrote, pirates will gather. Peace left the navy with little work, and by 1618 there were ten times as many pirates as in the whole reign of Queen Elizabeth. Ordinary seamen earned ten shillings a month.
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Dow, George Francis, and John Henry Edmonds. The Pirates of the New England Coast (1630–1730). Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-pirates-of-the-new-england-coast-1630-1730.
Dow, G. F., & Edmonds, J. H. (2026). The pirates of the New England coast (1630–1730). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-pirates-of-the-new-england-coast-1630-1730 (Original work published 1923)
Dow, George Francis, and John Henry Edmonds. The Pirates of the New England Coast (1630–1730). Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-pirates-of-the-new-england-coast-1630-1730.
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What is The Pirates of the New England Coast about?
It tells the story of piracy off New England from 1630 to 1730. It follows named pirates such as Dixey Bull, William Kidd, John Quelch, Samuel Bellamy and Ned Low, and shows how colonial courts and merchants dealt with them.
Is The Pirates of the New England Coast a true story?
Yes, it is history, not fiction. The authors drew on state archives, Admiralty court records, trial pamphlets, sermons and newspapers, and checked Captain Charles Johnson's account of pirates against the original documents.
Who was Ned Low?
Ned Low was an English-born ship rigger who lived in Boston before becoming a pirate captain in 1722. He raided fishing fleets and ships from Newfoundland to the Caribbean, and he is remembered for his cruelty to New Englanders.
The author
George Francis Dow
1868–1936 · American historian
George Francis Dow (1868–1936) was an American historian who lived in Massachusetts. He worked at the Essex Institute in Salem. He wrote Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, published in 1935, and co-wrote The Pirates of the New England Coast (1630–1730) with John Henry Edmonds, published in 1923.
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