1642-1653. A Paper read before the Maryland Historical Society, May 12th, 1884, BY...

CAPTAIN RICHARD INGLE, The Maryland “Pirate and Rebel,” 1642-1653....

“Captain Richard Ingle, ... a pirate and a rebel, was discovered hovering about the settlement.”— McSherry, History of Maryland, p. 59. “The destruction of the records by him [Ingle] has involved this episode in impenetrable obscurity, &c.”— Johnson, Foundation of Maryland, p. 99. “Captain Ingle, the pirate, the man who gloried in the name of ‘The Reformation.’”— Davis, “The Day Star,” p. 210. “That Heinous Rebellion first put in Practice by that Pirate Ingle.”— Acts of Assembly, 1638-64

I n the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the American colonies, from Massachusetts to South Carolina, were at intervals subject to visitations of pirates, who were wont to appear suddenly upon the coasts, to pillage a settlement or attack trading vessels and as suddenly to take flight to their strongholds. Captain Kidd was long celebrated in prose and verse, and only within a few years have credulous people ceased to seek his buried treasures. The arch-villain, Blackbeard, was a terror to Vi