See James Carr b 1680 and his sister Mary Carr (by a previous mother) a nd her husband, Thomas Paine.
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Area History: Chapters 4 - 5, Vol II - Watson's Annals of Philadelphia A nd Pennsylvania, 1857

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ANNALS

of

PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA,


VOL. II

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Chapter 4. THE PIRATES

"A bucaniering race -----
The dregs and feculence of every land."

The story of the pirates had been, in early times, one of deep interest
and stirring wonder to our forefathers; so much so, that the echo of their
recitals, far as we have been long since removed from their fears, have no t
yet ceased to vibrate upon our ears. Who among us of goodly years but has
heard something of the names and piracies of Kid and Blackbeard ! They ha ve
indeed much of the mist of antiquity about them; for none remember the
original tales truly, and all have ceased to read, for none knows where to
find the book of "the History of the Pirates", as published by William
Bradford, in New York, in 1724. That book I have never been able to
procure, although I have some conception of it and its terrifying pictures ,
as once seen and read by my mother when a child. It had every character o f
the marvellous surely, when it contained notices of the lives of two femal e
pirates -- even of Mary Reed and Anne Bonny ! Dr. Franklin tells us th at he
made and published a sailors' song on the capture of Blackbeard -- done wh en
he was yet a boy. Can any one bring it again to light ? Many would li ke to
see it.

CAPTAIN KID.

Captain Kid (Robert) used to be the earliest name of terror along our
coast, although I believe he never committed any excesses near our borders ,
or on our vessels; but partisans in his name were often named and dreaded.
What countryman he was does not appear, but his residence appears to have
been in New York before his piracies were known, where he had a wife and
child. He most probably had been a successful privateersman, possessing
then the friendship of Governor Fletcher, Mr. Nicolls, and Col. Robert
Livingston; the latter of whom recommended him to the crown "as a bold and
honest man to suppress the prevailing piracies in the American seas". It
appears on record at New York, as early as March 1691, that Captain Kid th en
reclaimed a pressed seaman; and on the 17th of August of the same year, he
is recorded as bringing in his prize and paying the king his tenth, and th e
governor his fifteenth, of course showing he was once every way a legalize d
man among them. His being called "bold" probably arose from numerous acts
of successful daring, which made his name renowned while on the side of th e
law, and equally a subject of terror when openly acknowledged a pirate. I t
appears from a pamphlet of facts in the case, set forth by the friends of
the Earl of Bellermont, about the year 1702, that Col. Robert Livingston a nd
Captain Kid being both in London in 1694, the former recommended him to th e
crown officers, and also became his security, by whom he received comma nd of
the Adventure galley, and sailed from Plymouth in February 1695. He came
out direct to New York, thence went to Madeira, Madagascar, and the Red se a.
In the latter he began his piracies, capturing several vessels, and finall y
the Quedah Merchant, of 400 tons; with her he came back to the West Indies ,
where leaving her in charge of one Bolton, he came in a sloop* to Long
Island sound, and made many deposits on shore. [ *The word sloop often
meant a war vessel without reference to the manner of her rigging.] While
in the sound he sent one Emmet to the Earl of Bellermont, then transferred
from the government at New York to that at Boston, to negotiate terms of
reconciliation. The Governor assured him of fair treatment, in such terms
of equivocacy as ensnared him so far that he landed the first of June 1699
-- was then arrested and sent home to England for trial. Finally, he was
executed at Execution Dock, the 23d of March 1701, and so gave rise to the
once notable "song of Captain Kid". Col. Livingston again attempted to
befriend him after his arrest at Boston, by offering some suggestions for
his relief. He was one-fifth owner of his original enterprise, in concert
with some noblemen in England. The whole was an unofficial adventure of
crown officers, possessing, however, the sanction, though not the commissi on
of the king. The expedition itself being thus of an anomalous character,
excited considerable political inquiry in England, and finally became, aft er
Kid's death, the subject of parliamentary investigation. The particulars
more at large have been preserved by me in my MS. book of Historical
Collections, given to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Smith's
History of New York has some few facts concerning him -- see 4to. edition,
p.91. A writer at Albany, in modern times, says they had the tradition th at
Kid once visited Coeymans and Albany; and at a place two miles from the
latter, it was said he deposited money and treasure in the earth. Two
families, now of wealth and respectability of New York, have been named to
me as original settlers at Oyster Bay on Long Island, who became suddenly
rich by their connexion with Kid's piracies. The story was, that they
deserted from his sloop above mentioned, in the sound, after seeing the
treasure deposited, and when the chief was arrested, and the expedition
destroyed, they profited by the exclusive gain.
Many incidental facts of that day show that the pirates often had their
friends and accomplices on shore, acting not unlike the armed vessels off
our coasts in the time of the French revolution, all of whom seemed to hav e
accurate knowledge of fit prizes to sail, or expected to arrive. The very
circumstance of Kid's having a family in New York inferred his family
alliances, and perhaps, if we now knew all things, we might see, even now,
some of his wealthy descendants.
Tradition, about and along Long Island sound says, that the Sachem's hea d
and the Thimble islands were the rendezvous of Capt. Kid -- one of these
rocky islands in the sound is called "Kid's island". He deposited on
Gardiner's island the same treasure which was given up to Gov. Bellermont,
and of which there is a schedule in the hands of the Gardiner family at th is
day. It is said that a pot of $1800 was ploughed up two or three years ag o
in a corn field at Martha's Vineyard, which is supposed to have been Kid's
money. Kid has been sometimes called William Kid, and has been so named i n
that schedule. At Kid's island is a cave, where it is said the pirates us ed
to hide and sleep -- inside of it is cut the letters R. K., supposed to
stand for Robert Kid -- a hole in the rocky floor, chiselled out, is calle d
their punch bowl for carousal. Another little island is called "Money
island" and has been much dug for its treasure.
Gov. Fletcher has had the reputation of countenancing the pirates, and
Nicholls, one of his council, has been handed down by tradition as their a gent.
An old account, London edition, of the Sea Rovers, from which I have see n
some reprint, says of New York, about the year 1695, that "the easy access
to the harbour, and the number of hiding places about its waters, together
with the laxity of the newly organized government, made it a great
rendezvous for pirates, where they might dispose of their booty and concer t
new schemes of depredation. There they sold at small prices their rich
luxuries and spoils of the Spanish provinces. To some at least they were
welcome visiters, and for that reason, crews of these freebooters might be
seen swaggering about town in open day. In time it became matter of
scandal, and a public pest, and the government at home was urgently applie d
to [of course by the best part of the community] to suppress this evil".
It was of course a matter understood, that to make spoliations on Spanis h
provinces was so much reprisal for wrongs which Hollanders had suffered,
under the cruel Duke of Alva, in their fatherland.
In 1699, Isaac Norris, Sen. writes, saying "We have four men in prison,
taken up as pirates, supposed to be Kid's men. Shelly, of New York has
brought to these parts some scores of them, and there is a sharp look o ut to
take them. We have various reports of their riches, and money hid between
this and the capes. There were landed about twenty men, as we understand,
at each cape, and several are gone to York. A sloop has been seen cruisin g
off the capes for a considerable time, but has not meddled with any vessel
as yet, though she has spoken with several".
The above quoted letter, in the Logan MS. collection, goes to countenanc e
the prevalent idea of hidden money. The time concurs with the period
Captain Kid was known to have returned to the West Indies. It may have be en
the very sloop in which Kid himself was seeking means of conveying home hi s
treasure, and with which he finally went into Long Island sound to endeavo ur
to make his peace. Four of the men, landed at Lewistown, were apprehended
and taken to Philadelphia; I saw the bill of their expense,* but heard no
more of them, save that I saw that Colonel Quarry, at Philadelphia, was
reproached by William Penn for permitting the bailing of the pirates; some
were also bailed at Burlington -- Vide Penn's letter of 1701. [* Wessell
Alricks, of Newr county, (New Castle) was paid £9, for bringing pirates in
1700, to Philadelphia, from the Whore-kills -- Logan MSS.] One man of
Jersey was arrested by James Logan, on his own declaration that he had so
hid money on Cape May, but the case was discharged by Logan himself, as
something like a hoax. William Clark, the collector of customs "down the
Delaware" at Lewistown I presume, had his house robbed by pirates, as he
alleged.
A letter from Jonathon Dickinson, then at Port Royal, dated the 5th of
4mo. 1699, to his wife then in Philadelphia, says "Many pirates are and ha ve
been upon the coast. About two days since came news of Captain Kid's bein g
upon our coast, being come from the East Indies with a great booty, but
wants provisions. He is in a ship which he took from the natives of those
parts, having thirty odd guns, with twenty-five white men and thirty
negroes. There is gone hence, two days since, Ephraim Pilkerton, in a slo op
well manned, to go and take him". Probably the reason of so few men on
board the "Quedah" was, that Kid himself was absent in the sloop before
mentioned.
An original letter, which I have seen, from John Askew in London, dated
22d of 3 mo. 1701, to Jonathan Dickinson, contains a "postscriptum"
intimating the finale of this bold sea rover -- saying, "Captain Kid and
some other pirates are to execute tomorrow at execution Dock, in Wapping;
Kid, to be gibbetted at Tillberry Fort, Gravesend."
As a sequel to the whole, came out the ballad song of Captain Kid -- a
great rarity in the present day, although the pensive tones are still know n
to some, and have been lately revived in much bad taste among the eccentri c
camp-meeting hymns -- singing "Farewell, ye blooming youth" &c. For the u se
of the curious, both the facts and the style of this pirate song are here
preserved, from the recollections of an ancient person, to wit :

1. My name was Captain Kid,
When I sail'd, when I sail'd,
My name is Captain Kid,
And so wickedly I did,
God's laws I did forbid
When I sail'd, when I sail'd

2. My name, &c.
I roam'd from sound to sound,
And many a ship I found,
And them I sunk or burn'd
When I sail'd, when I sail'd.

3. My name, &c.
I murdered William Moore,
And laid him in his gore,
Not many leagues from shore,
When I sail'd, when I sail'd.

4. My name, &c.
Farewell to young and old,
All jolly seamen bold;
You're welcome to my gold,
For I must die, I must die.

5. My name is, &c.
Farewell to Lunnon town,
The pretty girls all round ;
No pardon can be found,
And I must die, I must die.

6. My name, &c.
Farewell, for I must die
Then to eternity,
In hideous misery,
I must lie, I must lie.

Source: Watson's Annals of Philadelphia And Pennsylvania, Vol II, Chapt er 4 (1857), excerpt
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Capt. William Kidd, Pirate

10 September 1696
Articles of agreement between Capt. William Kidd, commander of the good sh ip Adventure, and John Walker, Quartermaster. Subscribed and agre ed to by the ship's company:

Starboard Watch
Robert Bradinham
George Bollen
Alexander Milberry
Wm. Beck
John Torksey
George Sinkler
John Wier
Samuel Bradley
Peter Hammond
Archibald B. Bohanan
William Skines
Edward Colliness
Edward Roberts
Peter P. Rouse
Ellis Strong
Yoer oovrall
Thomas Hobson
John Pears
Joseph Budden
William Rowls
Jan Spons
John Jonson
Hendrick Albert
John Browne
Cornelius Orvyn
John Marten
Nicholas Jennings
Andries Jeaniszen
Wm. Wellman
Charles Bathurst
John Davis
Thomas Fletcher
Edward Buckmaster
William Hunt
Harculis Bredsteed
Jan de Roodt
John West
John FLing
Daniel Mokoricke
Henry Sanders
Edward Graham
Aldris Saerdenbreech
George Tarpole
John Burton
Ebenezar Miller
James Alger
William Percy
Nicholas Tredgidgen
Phillip Conninghame
James Carr
Robert Hunt
John Hunt, Jr.
William Whitley
William Arnett
Neschen
Isaac Ambros
John Hunt, Sr.
William Weakum
Jacob Conklin
Benjamin Franks
Isaac Dernes
Samuel Aires
John de Mart
Simon de Woolf
John Parerick, negro
John Roberts
Govert Baners

Larboard Watch
Henry Meade
John Warker (Quartermaster)
Henry Olive
Wm. Moore
Alex. Gordon
John Finely
Joseph Palmer
John Smith
Barnet Higgins
William Bowyer
William Turner
Walter King
Edward Spooner
Robert Smithers
Thomas Purdeg
John Kemble
Hugh Washington
Robert Ruderford
Richd. Basnet
Jacob Cornelijs
Morgan Harriss
Peter Lee
Michael Calloway
Ery Geyselar
John Fletcher
Clexfflders (sic)
Humphry Clay
Jacob Horran
John Watson
Henry Bainbridge
Nicholas Tuder
Harman Buger
Bernard Looman
Hendrickus Cregier
Peter de Roy
James Betles
Henry Pieterson
Casper Spreall
David Carsson
Noah East
James How
David Mullings
Samuel Taylor
John Collings
Henry Evertse
Joseph Hill
Richd. Willdey, Sr.
Wm. Willdey, Jr.
Tho. Wright
Peter Smith
Gabriel Loffe
Alex. Mumford
William Holden
Patrick Dinmer
Wm. Bowyer, Sr.
Peter Fewlo
Robert Clem
Mich. Evens
Andrew How
English Smith
Aba. Coucher
Andrew Calwell

11 April 1700
A list of the pirates taken to England in H.M.S. Advice from New Englan

Associates and Accomplices of William Kidd
Edward Davis
James Kelley alias Gillam Gabriel Loffe
Samuel Arris
Hugh Parratt
Robt. Lamley
Wm. Jenkins
Richd. Barleycorn
Jos. Palmer

Associates and Accomplices of Joseph Bradish
Tee Withered
Jno. Lloyd
Thomas Davis
Robt. Knox
Thomas Dane
Cornelius Larkin
Thomas Read
Aylmer Clarke
Jno. Westby
Robt. Amsden
Robt. Mason
Jno. Pierve
Andw. Martin
Thomas Simpson
Rowland Martin
Willm. Griffin
James Vennen
Edwd. Hamm
Jno. Parrat
Thomas Edgehill
Thomas Hewes

Headlam, Cecil, ed., Calender of State Papers, Colonial Series (Volume 18 ), America and West Indies, 1700, Preserved in the Public Record Office (V aduz: Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1964) First Published London: HMSO, 1910. pp. 16 2, 199-200.


More information about Capt. Kidd and pirates can be found in the books:
Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates
and:
The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730
and:
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirat es


Source: Genealogy Quest (Retrieved 8 Apr 2003]
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/kidd.html
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Subject: No Subject
Date: 10:37 AM
From: DaveBetsiMcKay@aol.com
To: PatNoble@aol.com

Thank you so much! That's fantastic! I've often felt Bavarian and never Rh ode Island-ian !
You said you wanted a birthdate for James Carr---James Carr born 1680, s on of the RI Carr, Caleb----
from some notes I kept on MicWord. At moment I can't find website address es
but know they turned up under Google search "Carr Kidd," search suggest ed by
book "Pirate Hunters" suggested by 1930's movie on pirates that mentionn ed a
Carr being left by Kidd on some island where some treasure and a colo ny of
friends had been set up. saw it in childhood, can't find it now.
The following was a page I collected trying to get my brothers interest ed in
genealogy.
Have ordered photocopy of Edson Carr's book from Tuttle Antiquarian Bksell ers
in VT so when it comes I won't be so bothersome.
Thank you again.


NOTES COLLECTED ON THE INTERNET REGARDING

CARRS AT SEA


THOMAS PAINE WAS MARRIED TO YOUNG JAMES CARR’S SISTER.
CAPT KIDD DID BUSINESS WITH THEIR FATHER Caleb CARR and with Paine. Pai ne
helped Kidd in his last trips to the NE before his deportation and tri al in
London after political turns branded Kidd an outlaw.
Rhode Island economy was very involved with privateering. Traders we
mainstay of the business community. Privateers came to R I harbors wi
little concern for the changeing legalities imposed by political and
religious politics in New York.
(see PIRATE HUNTERS, by Zarch(?), ____. 2002) Bk

JAMES CARR AND CAPT KIDD

....Caleb Carr took a very prominent part in the affairs of the settleme nt at
Newport and in the Colony of Rhode Island. Among the offices in which he
served were: Town Commissioner, Deputy, Justice, General Treasurer and
Colonial Governor (in 1695 and terminated by his death late that same
year)...Perhaps the thing that Caleb did that had the most lasting effe
upon the family was his purchase of large tracts of land on the isla
Conanicut/Jamestown, where several of his children took up their residenc e,
and their descendants live there still...he also established a ferry betwe en
Newport and Jamestown, in 1675, spanning two hundred and fifity years
associated with the Carr family...in the course of all these activiti es he
became possessed of considerable wealth and his residence was on what is n ow
Mill Street in Newport...he owned wharves and a warehouse at the foot of M ill
Street where the ferry now docks...his Will disposed of human as well as r eal
and personal property
...his daughter Mary was without children but had a rather famous husba nd in
Thomas Paine. He was a seafaring man and there is strong, evidence to pr ove
that he was partner and intimate of the famous pirate, Captain Kidd.


Another Child of CALEB CARR and SARAH CLARKE is:

ix. JAMES CARR, b. 1680.


Capt. William Kidd, Pirate
10 September 1696
Articles of agreement between Capt. William Kidd, commander of the good sh ip
Adventure, and John Walker, Quartermaster. Subscribed and agreed to by t he
ship's company:
Starboard Watch: (ABBREVIATED LIST)
Aldris Saerdenbreech William Percy
Nicholas Tredgidgen Phillip Conninghame

James Carr---only 16 but Kidd had trouble getting this crew together
Samuel Bradley----Capt Kidd’s young brother in law; also:

Robert Bradinham George Bollen
Peter Hammond Archibald B. Bohanan
William Skines Edward Colliness
Edward Roberts Peter P. Rouse
Ellis Strong Yoer oovrall
Thomas Hobson Cornelius Orvyn
John Marten Wm. Wellman
Charles Bathurst John Davis
Thomas Fletcher Edward Buckmaster
William Hunt Harculis Bredsteed
Jan de Roodt Daniel Mokoricke
Henry Sanders Edward Graham






RHODE ISLAND CEMETERY BASE
HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: JM008
PAINE CEMETERY JAMESTOWN
CAROLINE CO. VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK 1732-1740


Location: 250 ft east of EAST SHORE RD at TEL pole # 2
25 burials with 3 inscriptions from 1707 to 1806
30 ft x 30 ft in good condition no enclosure; sign missing

NOTE: between house (Cajacet) and road on lawn. There were many fieldston es
here 50 years ago when it was a camp.

Legend says that the pirate Capt Kidd used to visit Capt Thomas Paine a nd
that his first mate is buried in this cemetery. Some say Capt Kidd
(1654-1701) is buried here, but he was hanged for murder and piracy at Lon don
England
on May 23 1701.


This cemetery has been recorded and checked.
_________________________________website



continued .........KIDD And CARR NOTES

LIST OF THE NAMES of the Inhabitants of Barbados, in the Year 1638 (sic ?)
who then possess'd more than ten Acres of Land.

Carr John
Corbett Clement
Kidd Thomas

This List, which is reprinted in
P.F. Campbell's "Some Early Barbadian History",
published Barbados, 1993, appears to be part of an old publication which
Campbell reproduces in its entirety, and which is entitled:
"Memoirs of the First Settlement of the Island of Barbados and other t
Carribbee Islands, with the Succession of the Governors and Commande
Chief of Barbados to the Year 1742, extracted from Ancient Records, Pape rs
and Accounts taken from Mr. William Arnold, Mr. Samuel Bulkly, and Mr. Jo hn
Summers, some of the First Settlers, the last of whom was alive in 1688, a ged
82. Also some Remarks on the Laws and Constitution of Barbados."

by William DUKE, the clerk of the House of Assembly, who first published t he
100 page book in Barbados in 1741.

Second edition London 1743. Reprinted in Bdos 1891. For more details, s
Handler's "Guide to Source Materials for the study of Barbados History", p age
30.London, Printed for E. Owen near Chancery Lane, Holborn, MDCCXLII.


-----------------------------------


ANOTHER CARR/KIDD CONNECTION 100 YRS LATER: Carrs and Kidds come to
‘Carolina’ territory at same time
CAROLINE CO. VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK 1732-1740


p. 64; Thomas CARR acknowledge his deed of lease and releases of land
indented to MOSSES KIDD, dated 14 Mar, 1733/4.


Moses Kidd son of William and Margaret Kidd of Middlesex County and lat
King and Queen County was the first to move to Caroline Co., with his wi fe
Dorothy and daughter Sarah. He appears in Caroline County in March 1733/ 4.
He was followed by his brother Duel/Dirrill in 1743. Dirill married Mary
Sorrow in 1735 and had a son, James born in 1736 and a daughter Margare
born in 1739. They would be followed by brothers James in 1741 and Aar on in
1747. Aaron and James would later sojourn to Albemarle Co. where brother J ohn
had moved in 1744.

The first courthouse in Caroline County was built in the trangle form ed by
Kidd's Fork on the north in Caroline County and Shumanville on the sou th in
King and Queen county and on the east by Ideal in Essex coutny. The buildi ng
of the courthouse near Kidd's Fork in May, 1732 was synonymous with the
beginning of record keeping in Caroline Co.
Moses Kidd's appearance in Caroline County in 1733/4 was one of the fir st
court records in Caroline County. James and Eliza Kidd fathered James Ki dd in
or around 1734 and Webb Kidd in or around 1735. James and Eliza Kidd and
their sons moved to Albemarle county around 1753. Aaron and Susanna Kidd a lso
moved to Albemarle County around 1753.

More information about Capt. Kidd and pirates can be found in the books:
Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates
and:
The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730
and:
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirat es
e





extra info---
HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: JM001 GOV CARR L
JAMESTOWN


Location: 50 ft west of EAST SOUTH ROAD
12 burials with 12
inscriptions from 1675 to 1814
25 ft x 100 ft in good condition enclosed with a stone wall; sign in go od
condition


NOTE: These stones were moved on Sep 8, 1900 by Mrs. John Fost er
Carr from the old Carr Cemetery on Mill St. in Newport. See transit perm it
dated 10 Sep 1900 in Jamestown


Town Clerk's Office. This cemete ry
has been recorded but not checked.

lweiler@earthlink.net “ My ancestor, JOHN CARR, born in Barbados, son of
ANDREW CARR, Gov. Caleb's brother, born in 1623 in London immigrated fr
Barados, arriving in Charleston, SC on the ship "Blessing" in 1671. (I
realize that in that day Barbados was a very general term, which could ha ve
meant any island off the coast of the U.S., as well as many others).
Does anyone have any information about ANDREW or JOHN CARR? would anyone k now
where I can find a manifest of....”