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Equiv. US$ 169.8 million in 2023; [1] #1 Forbes top-earning pirates [2] Captain Samuel Bellamy ( c. 23 February 1689 – 26 April 1717), later known as "Black Sam" Bellamy, was an English sailor turned pirate during the early 18th century. He is best known as the wealthiest pirate in recorded history, and one of the faces of the Golden Age of ...
Sep 30, 2021 · Captain Samuel Bellamy, aka 'Black Sam' Bellamy (d. 1717), was a British pirate active during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). Bellamy’s final ship Whydah was wrecked off Cape Cod in a storm, and the pirate captain drowned along with almost all of his crew.
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May 30, 2019 · Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy (ca.1689-1717) was an English pirate captain who terrorized the Caribbean for a few months in 1716-1717. He was captain of the Whydah, one of the most formidable pirate ships of the age. A skilled captain and charismatic pirate, he may have done much more harm had his pirating career not been cut short by a violent ...
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Feb 23, 2014 · The Whydah Gally also captured a sloop under the command of a Capt. Beers. Black Sam Bellamy wanted to let him keep his ship, but his crew had voted to burn it. Bellamy asked the captain to join the pirates, and Beers declined. That allegedly inspired the speech attributed to the pirate:
When Capt. Samuel Bellamy was born on 23 February 1689, in Hittisleigh, Devon, England, his father, Stephen Bellamy, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Pain, was 29. He married Mehitable Brown in 1715. He died on 26 April 1717, in At Sea, at the age of 28, and was buried in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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Oct 10, 2015 · Memoirs of Captain Sam Bellamy : The Prince of Pirates: St Croix, 1716-1717 : John A. Boyd : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Definition. Captain Samuel Bellamy, aka 'Black Sam' Bellamy (d. 1717), was a British pirate active during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). Bellamy’s final ship Whydah was wrecked off Cape Cod in a storm, and the pirate captain drowned along with almost all of his crew. The wreck was rediscovered in 1984, and many artefacts from it have ...
