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Hello. Welcome to the Pirate

2:00

History Podcast. My name is

2:03

Matt. Thank you for listening. We've

2:06

talked a bit about the pirates that harassed

2:08

the Atlantic coast of North America up

2:10

until now, going all the way back

2:13

to old Dixie Bull, who harassed

2:15

New England back in the 1630s. Piracy

2:19

along the Atlantic coast was kind of a never-ending,

2:23

low-grade threat, and that's

2:25

the way it was for most of the world, really, but America

2:28

especially. I

2:30

think, in part, it's got to do with

2:33

all of the wilderness. Say

2:36

you're England, right, and you're

2:38

out there building an empire. If

2:40

you're colonizing India, or

2:43

later on someplace like China, you've

2:45

got to do it with fleets of ships

2:47

and tons of soldiers. I mean, there are

2:50

a lot of people there, and they have

2:52

guns. But when you're colonizing

2:54

a place like America, you can take

2:57

a more or less hands-off approach.

3:00

And it's not like America was empty. There were

3:02

lots of Native Americans around, but let's

3:05

be honest, there weren't that many.

3:08

And maybe my mind is on this because I just

3:10

finished reading The Stand by Stephen

3:13

King, for the first time since I was,

3:15

I don't know, 12 years old, probably. And

3:19

it struck me that The Stand was a very

3:21

American book. Like

3:23

America is what it's about. If

3:27

you haven't read it, it's about a deadly

3:29

global pandemic, but

3:32

you never see anything in the book that happens outside

3:35

the United States. And

3:37

when the good guys get together in the bolder

3:39

free zone, what's the first thing they do,

3:41

the very first thing? They

3:44

sing the Star-Spangled Banner. Then

3:47

they ratify the Constitution and establish

3:49

a little old-fashioned town hall direct

3:51

democracy. It's filled with

3:53

this kind of stuff. It's about America.

3:56

And how does The Stand begin? horrific

4:00

plague that wipes out a huge percentage of

4:02

the population. I'm not sure

4:04

that's the intent that King was

4:07

going for, but that's my read on it.

4:10

And, you know, it's not like there were no Indians on the

4:12

Atlantic coast in 1700.

4:14

There were,

4:15

but their population was nowhere near

4:18

what it had been a century before, or,

4:20

you know, a century before that. There

4:23

was a lot of just open

4:25

wilderness on the Atlantic coast and to which

4:27

pirate ships could slip. A

4:30

lot of little hidey-holes from which

4:32

they could pounce. So

4:34

there were always threats out there,

4:36

waiting to capture a few tons of tobacco

4:38

here, a few tons of cod there, but

4:41

most of these were small-time operations,

4:44

and most of them were

4:46

foreign. In the case of the English colonies,

4:49

it was mostly threats from French pirates,

4:53

but really they were only pirates because

4:55

there was not currently a war

4:57

on. Most of

4:59

them were mostly good,

5:01

honest, patriotic men and women who just happened

5:04

to be operating outside the law because

5:06

of the current state of geopolitics.

5:09

As soon as the war starts back up, and it would,

5:13

they would be welcomed into the bosom of France

5:15

as law-abiding privateers. And,

5:17

you know, that goes both ways. There were plenty of English

5:20

sailors out there doing the exact same

5:22

thing. And of course the pirates

5:24

of Le Pa, led by Captain

5:26

Louis Guitard, were no different

5:28

in that respect. Most

5:31

of them were French, some of them were Dutch,

5:33

and they had some Englishmen that had been conscripted.

5:37

But what they were not, at

5:39

their core, were good,

5:42

honest, patriotic men who were just waiting

5:44

to be welcomed back into the bosom of France.

5:48

I see something happening here, and no

5:50

one at the time seems to have noticed it quite

5:53

yet. But it seems to

5:55

me that the pirates of Le Pa are

5:57

a harbinger for what is to come. Something

6:00

about the pirates had changed forever.

6:05

This is episode 324, Prodigies of Wickedness. It

6:12

was about two in the afternoon of 29 April 1700. The

6:18

pirate ship Lapa lay on her side,

6:21

beached, unmoving. There

6:23

was that crowd of people sitting on the shoreline

6:26

watching the battle, and they were exultant

6:28

at this. They weren't

6:30

sure if the pirates had yet surrendered,

6:33

and as it happened they hadn't, not quite yet. But

6:36

it was clear that surrender was coming, right? I mean,

6:39

they couldn't do any more fighting. A

6:42

man named Nathaniel McClanahan

6:44

was among the onlookers there, and

6:47

he was maybe the first to spot the four

6:50

men who jumped overboard from

6:52

Lapa and began their swim to shore.

6:55

One by one these men dropped beneath

6:58

the waves. They couldn't hack it. It was still

7:00

a fairly substantial swim to make it to

7:02

land. Only one of those four

7:04

managed to do so. Nathaniel

7:07

McClanahan would say, later on

7:10

in his testimony, quote, I

7:12

took him up and asked if he could speak

7:14

English. The sailor replied

7:16

that he could, so McClanahan said,

7:19

What country man are you? The

7:21

sailor told him, New York. McClanahan

7:24

then asked the real question, Are

7:27

you one of the pirates? And

7:29

the sailor said, No, I was a prisoner forced.

7:33

Why have you come ashore? McClanahan asked

7:36

for a boat. In his testimony,

7:38

McClanahan said he noticed the man's fingers

7:40

were burned and swollen. He

7:43

said, quote, I took him for a rogue and believed

7:45

he had fought, but he excused

7:47

himself and said he was forced to hand

7:50

powder. It

7:52

became pretty quickly, pretty clear,

7:55

though, that the people on shore

7:57

had taken this man for a pirate and they

7:59

planned to arrest him. But suddenly,

8:01

this swimmer yelled, quote, "'McHast

8:04

from the shore! The pirates designed to blow

8:06

up their ship!" And everybody

8:08

listened. They began to run, some

8:10

of them toward town, some just into the nearby

8:12

woods where they might have some protection. This

8:16

man who had swum ashore also ran,

8:18

but in a different direction, and this made McClanahan

8:21

suspicious. So he chased

8:24

after the man, tackled him, and

8:26

arrested him. He

8:28

didn't know it yet, but Nathaniel

8:30

McClanahan had just caught John

8:33

Hughling. It

8:35

was at this point that the pirates

8:37

on board Lappan lowered their bloody flag

8:40

and surrendered, and that's important. The

8:42

timing here is important. John

8:45

Hughling had already been captured away

8:47

from the ship, so he wasn't on

8:50

board when the pirates formally surrendered.

8:53

This made him distinct

8:56

from the men who were currently on board.

8:59

And of course Hughling wasn't the only pirate

9:01

who wasn't there. Last

9:03

time I mentioned that there were a few pirates who didn't

9:05

make it over to Lappan, and

9:08

I wasn't specific about it, but there were two

9:10

men, Cornelius Frank and

9:12

Francois Delany. Those

9:15

two men had been sleeping off their night of

9:17

excess in the first mate's cabin

9:20

on board the Nicholson, all

9:22

of which means that those three men were

9:24

not included in the governor's

9:27

acceptance of surrender. Captain

9:30

William Passenger took over one

9:32

hundred pirates from Lappan into custody,

9:35

including Captain Louis Guitard, but

9:37

those three men were not taken into

9:40

the custody of the Royal Navy. While

9:42

most of the pirates would be shipped back to England

9:45

to face trial, those three were

9:47

going to face the judgment of a Virginia

9:49

court. Which is

9:52

fairly significant. I mean the threat

9:54

of piracy still loomed over the Chesapeake

9:56

region. Remember that Lappan

9:58

was only the flagshade. ship of a small

10:01

fleet of other pirate ships, but

10:04

those pirate ships had not taken part in

10:06

the battle. The day after

10:08

Lapa had been defeated, the thirtieth

10:10

of April, the pink Baltimore

10:13

captured yet another vessel. That

10:16

was a small merchantman called the Wheeler.

10:19

She was just emerging from the York River when

10:21

she was happened upon by the Baltimore.

10:24

She was boarded by about fifty pirates

10:26

and relieved of a cargo of Brandy. This

10:29

was a problem. I mean, they were still out there

10:32

causing trouble. But the

10:34

character of the men on board Baltimore seems

10:36

to be a little bit nicer

10:39

than the other pirates. You know,

10:41

they didn't beat any of the prisoners. They

10:44

didn't dump any of the cargo overboard

10:46

just for kicks. They didn't drink

10:48

it all over the Brandy and spend all

10:50

night dancing. No, they just took

10:53

their cargo, shook hands, and sailed

10:55

away in peace. Which

10:57

was

10:58

better,

10:59

but still piracy. And that

11:01

created kind of a cloud, you

11:03

know, a very hostile environment

11:06

toward all of the pirates who had already been

11:08

captured. Their friends were still out

11:10

there getting up to all kinds of mischief.

11:13

The locals began to make some pretty violent

11:16

noises. They decided

11:18

to double the guard on the prison just

11:20

to avoid a mass lynching, which did

11:22

seem to be possible. Moreover,

11:25

the government decided to hold a trial

11:28

and do it quickly, but they

11:30

were going to do it properly. On 13

11:34

May, Governor Nicholson appointed Edward

11:36

Hill to serve as the judge

11:38

in the trial. The

11:40

sheriff of Elizabeth City County,

11:43

which is the name of this whole region, the man

11:45

named Walter Bayless empaneled

11:47

a grand jury and a petite jury.

11:51

He appointed fourteen men to serve as commissioners

11:53

and on the following day, 14 May 1700, a court

11:58

of the Admiralty of Virginia. was

12:00

convened. The

12:02

three prisoners were brought into the courtroom,

12:05

which was in a barn but still

12:07

official nonetheless. They

12:09

stood before the bar when the judge, Judge

12:12

Hill, said in his opening statement, quote,

12:14

we have great reason to praise God,

12:17

thereby being delivered from many miseries,

12:20

degradations, robberies, and

12:23

perhaps barbarous murders. He

12:26

goes on, pirates being a sort

12:28

of men whose robberies are generally accompanied

12:30

with the greatest and most horrid cruelties

12:33

and tortures to the persons of whose hard

12:35

fate it is to fall into their hands and

12:38

very frequently with the most execrable

12:41

murder of their captives in cold

12:43

blood.

12:47

Then the commissioners handed down the indictments

12:50

and they were fairly specific. John

12:53

Huling was indicted, quote, for

12:55

a piracy and robbery committed upon

12:57

the ship Pennsylvania Merchant,

13:00

end quote.

13:01

Francois Delany and his fellow,

13:04

Cornelius Frank, were indicted for their piracy

13:06

against the Nicholson. Now

13:08

they had all taken part in more

13:11

than this, but that's what they were indicted

13:13

for. It was the grand jury's job

13:15

to hand down approval of these indictments,

13:18

but they ran into a bit of a roadblock here. The

13:21

grand jurors learned that none of the witnesses

13:23

who would testify against these men could recognize

13:26

them by name. They didn't know

13:28

their names, they just, you know, seen them. When

13:31

the grand jurors were asking them questions,

13:33

they couldn't answer them to the grand jury's

13:35

satisfaction. Eventually

13:38

they got around this by, you know, pointing to

13:40

a man and saying, did that guy do this and

13:42

it matched up, did that guy do that and it matched

13:45

up. After several hours,

13:47

they finally got around to approving those indictments,

13:49

but it did take up a fair amount of time. As

13:53

they had been indicted on separate piracies,

13:55

they would be tried one after

13:57

another. John Hughling

13:59

came. came first. Not

14:02

having the fear of God before thine eyes,

14:05

but being moved and seduced by ye

14:07

instigation of the devil, John

14:10

Hewling piratically and feloniously,

14:12

in a hostile and warlike manner with force

14:15

of arms of great cunning, small

14:17

arms, cutlasses, and other

14:19

weapons of war, committed

14:21

piracy upon the high seas in his Majesty's

14:24

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14:27

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14:29

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The nominee jury of what they called, quote, 12

17:07

men, good and true, was called

17:09

in. They were each sworn

17:11

in on a Bible, and John Huling was given

17:13

the opportunity to challenge their appointment.

17:16

He

17:17

declined.

17:18

There's not a lot we need to talk about

17:21

concerning the testimonies given by the witnesses

17:24

against John Huling. Everything

17:26

they had to say is something we've already

17:29

talked about. You know, most of our information

17:31

comes from these testimonies. What's

17:34

interesting here, though, comes

17:36

from Huling's cross-examination

17:39

of the witnesses. He

17:41

didn't have a lawyer that didn't appoint a lawyer

17:43

for you in those days, but he did pretty well

17:45

on his own. He

17:48

asked the first witness, Edmund Ashfield,

17:50

quote, Did you see me plunder

17:53

anybody? Ashfield

17:55

replied, No, but I saw you

17:57

in arms. The second

17:59

witness, A man named Sam Harrison

18:02

told the court all about the events on Pennsylvania

18:04

Merchant, and he said,

18:06

indicating Huling here, quote, I

18:09

saw this man in the great cabin by

18:11

a fire, stooping down to the fire

18:13

with a chip in his hand which he threw upon

18:16

it, and there was none other by

18:18

it nor no fire but in the cabin.

18:22

When Huling cross-examined

18:24

Harrison, he asked if Harrison

18:27

had seen Huling light the fire personally

18:30

with his own eyes, and

18:32

Harrison stayed silent. A

18:34

couple of more men came in and told their stories,

18:37

indicating that, yes, John Huling had

18:39

taken part in the piracy. Those

18:41

men were dismissed, and then it came time for Huling

18:44

to speak his peace. He

18:46

had one main defense here, and

18:48

it wasn't bad either. He

18:50

said that he had been forced into

18:52

the crew, and this was a defense given by

18:55

virtually everybody in his situation.

18:58

However, what made Huling different

19:00

was he was able to produce that ticket, that

19:03

note which carried a declaration

19:05

from his old Captain Isaacs that

19:08

said John Huling was an unwilling

19:10

participant taken against his will, right?

19:14

And Judge Hill, you

19:15

know, the man in charge, responded

19:18

to this, and we should remember that

19:21

in 1700 judges were not nor were they intended

19:23

to be impartial. Judge

19:26

Hill said, quote, It might

19:28

be that you was not willing at the first,

19:31

but afterwards might.

19:33

End quote.

19:34

Huling said, I would have gone back to my family,

19:37

but the Captain of the pirate would not suffer

19:39

me. He took his cane and struck me.

19:42

He took his sword and rubbed me. The

19:45

judge said, I perceive you agreed with

19:47

him afterwards. And

19:50

then John Huling was accused of having

19:53

murdered in the service of the pirate

19:55

Captain Guitar. John

19:58

Huling said, quote, I shot no man. Again,

20:00

God is my witness, and the will of

20:03

God be done."

20:06

What they're talking about here is that moment when the carpenter

20:08

from the ship they were attacking came over, and

20:11

Captain Guitarr said, Was anyone

20:14

killed? And the man said, Yes, the master. John

20:17

Euling said, Well, where was he standing? The

20:20

guy said he was standing by the Mizen shroud,

20:22

but Euling responded, No, he was

20:25

standing by the Mizen mast, and I'm the one

20:27

who shot him. They

20:29

brought that carpenter in to tell that

20:32

story here, the

20:34

story that shows John Euling bragging

20:36

about it and then maniacally laughing

20:39

about it, showing that John Euling not

20:41

only did it, but that he enjoyed

20:43

it. The

20:45

district attorney, the man prosecuting

20:48

here, he closed with an address that

20:50

sealed John Euling's fate. He

20:53

said that the pirates of Le Pa were, quote, The

20:55

worst sorts of pirates, and

20:58

the prisoner at the bar, the worst of

21:00

them. In his

21:02

words, they were, quote, Prodigies of wickedness,

21:05

and their villainies exceed belief.

21:08

He concluded, What God they

21:10

pray to, I cannot conceive. The

21:15

jury retired and returned in quick

21:17

order. The foreman, William

21:19

Lowry, delivered the verdict.

21:23

Guilty. After John Euling was taken out of the court

21:25

with this guilty verdict hanging over his head,

21:28

Cornelius Frank and Francois Delany were

21:30

brought in, and their trials

21:32

were a bit more cut and dried. Those

21:35

two men had taken the Nicholson with their

21:37

fellow pirates. They had had a

21:40

huge amount of the ship's beer and wine.

21:43

Cornelius Frank took an active

21:45

part in the beatings and the tortures

21:48

that the pirates so enjoyed. One

21:51

witness, though, suggested that Delany

21:54

was less enthusiastic about

21:56

all of those beatings. The

22:00

owner was brought forward on the Nicholson

22:02

when the men drew their cutlasses and lashed him

22:05

bloody with them. It

22:07

was Delany who stood back

22:09

and cried. This

22:13

elicited a great deal of sympathy

22:16

for Francois Delany. He

22:18

was just a sympathetic boy,

22:20

after all. The

22:23

Attorney General said, It is

22:25

possible he might not be guilty of so

22:27

much cruelty, as Cornelius Frank,

22:30

but nevertheless he is guilty of ye same

22:32

piracy."

22:35

He pointed out specifically that both men

22:37

took part in tossing the tobacco overboard,

22:41

which was important. I mean, that's not as bad

22:43

as torturing somebody and enjoying

22:45

it, but it spoke to their character, right?

22:49

These men didn't have the words

22:51

in 1700 that we might use

22:53

today to describe these kinds of

22:55

actions, but they

22:57

were the kind of men who wanted to watch the world burn,

23:00

who liked it. So

23:02

the Attorney General's there saying, you know, he might not

23:04

like beating people, but he's fine with destroying

23:07

tobacco, which is just as bad. Both

23:10

of these men said that they had been forced and

23:13

coerced, but as

23:15

the Attorney General pointed out, quote, they have pleaded

23:17

force, but they have no evidence to prove

23:19

it. And he realized

23:22

that the jury was sympathetic

23:24

toward Delany. He

23:27

told them in his closing arguments, quote, to

23:29

leave mercy in its proper place.

23:33

After all, Delany was just a pirate.

23:36

So the jury retired, returned, and

23:39

delivered their verdicts. Cornelius

23:41

Frank was found guilty of all charges, especially

23:44

high seas piracy. Francois

23:46

Delany was found not

23:49

guilty. The Attorney

23:51

General exploded. Gentlemen

23:53

of the jury, he said, and he argued

23:56

that he was clearly guilty of taking up

23:58

arms, of engaging in piracy.

24:01

He argued, rightly in this

24:03

case, that Delany had no

24:06

evidence that he had been coerced, and he went

24:08

on and on, reiterating all

24:10

the arguments that had been made so far, but the

24:13

verdict had already been passed. He

24:16

was not guilty of piracy

24:19

against the Nicholson. But

24:22

of course Delany had been engaged in other

24:25

piracies that day and the day before,

24:28

and the court had other witnesses

24:30

up their sleeve. The

24:33

following day the trial recommenced,

24:36

or rather a new trial started.

24:39

The proceedings were the same. The

24:41

grand jury was brought in, new charges

24:44

were brought up, filed, and a new petite

24:46

jury was impaneled. Then

24:49

the Attorney General said, quote, Pirates

24:51

are the worst part of mankind. There

24:54

is no offense against God or man

24:57

but what in the course of their lives they

24:59

become guilty. I hope

25:01

you will consider that if such men

25:03

escape justice it will encourage

25:06

not only them to continue in their wicked

25:08

practices but others to

25:10

join with them.

25:15

And more witnesses were brought

25:17

in and said that yes, he had taken part

25:19

in piracy. That happened. And

25:22

then Delany, attempting to elicit

25:25

more sympathy here, pointed

25:27

out when cross-examining a witness

25:30

that he had given that witness on

25:32

board a pair of shoes,

25:35

and he did so against the wishes of

25:37

his shipmates. He pointed out

25:39

that the other pirates had threatened him with harm.

25:42

They said they would beat him, but that

25:44

he gave that man his own shoes off

25:46

his own feet. It

25:48

was an act of

25:49

mercy.

25:51

The witness agreed that yes, he

25:53

had done that, and he even

25:55

went on to say that yes, you

25:57

did give me a blanket, but he said, quote, Pirates are the worst part of mankind.

26:00

quote, This was a piece of

26:02

humanity only. And all

26:04

of the other witnesses, when prompted,

26:07

agreed that Delany was indeed,

26:09

in some respects, a decent man.

26:11

At least he showed a bit of humanity when it was

26:14

called for. But

26:16

all of them went on to point out that

26:18

Delany had been there when the plunder

26:20

was doled out, that he had accepted

26:23

his share willingly, and one man even

26:25

said that Delany was seen dancing

26:27

in celebration when they had that big party.

26:32

At one point, Delany asked

26:34

the witness if he had seen a certain exchange

26:36

that took place. His

26:38

fellow pirates came up to Delany while

26:41

they were on board after a fight and accosted

26:43

him for, quote, Not shooting

26:45

well. Delany claimed

26:47

that that wasn't an accident. He said

26:49

he didn't want to kill anybody, so he shot poorly.

26:54

Delany's chill interjected here. He said, quote, Pirates

26:57

will say anything to save

26:59

their lives. And

27:02

the jury agreed. He

27:05

did elicit some sympathy, but not enough.

27:08

When they retired and returned, Delany

27:11

was found guilty. On

27:14

twenty-fourth May, just a few days

27:17

later, John Huling was

27:19

taken to the place he first landed in

27:21

Virginia, that spot where all

27:23

those spectators had watched the battle,

27:25

where Nathaniel McClanahan had

27:27

chased him down and arrested him. When

27:31

he got there, he found that a cedar gibbet had

27:33

been erected on the shore. The

27:36

executioner put him on a stool, laid

27:39

a noose around his neck, and

27:41

kicked the stool out from under him. John

27:45

Huling jigged and danced until

27:47

he was still. The

27:51

executioner went a step further, and this was

27:53

on orders down from the governor. They

27:57

affixed an iron chain from the

27:59

gibbet. to his body, to

28:01

ensure that, even if the rope broke, he

28:04

would remain there, hanging, for many long

28:06

months. They wanted him

28:08

to hang there until nothing was left but bones,

28:13

as a warning to anyone who might consider

28:15

piracy

28:16

on the Chesapeake.

28:20

A few miles down the coast, at a point

28:22

called Princess Anne, two

28:25

gibbets had been erected. Cornelius

28:28

Frank and François Deligny were led there,

28:30

and they, too, were hung by the neck

28:32

until dead.

28:39

What about all the other pirates? There

28:41

were over a hundred men in jail,

28:43

or rather, locked up in a

28:46

barn, who had taken part in

28:48

the piracy. Governor

28:50

Nicholson had not been present at the trials.

28:53

He hadn't even attended either of the executions,

28:56

because Governor Nicholson

28:57

was busy.

28:59

His job, in conjunction with

29:01

Captain William Passenger, was

29:03

questioning Louis Guittard and all of

29:05

those other pirates, before

29:08

they were sent on to England.

29:11

Next time,

29:12

the trial of Louis Guittard and

29:14

the pirates of La Paz. I'd

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30:31

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30:33

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30:42

the only one I can hear, she's the only one I

30:48

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30:51

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