Republic of Pirates

Pirate stronghold in the Bahamas (1706–1718)

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"Pirate Republic" redirects here. For the "corsair republic", see Republic of Salé.

Republic of Pirates

Flying Gang

1706–1718

The Death's Head flag[1]

The islands of modern-day Bahamas

Capital| Nassau
Common languages| English
Religion

| Christianity (de facto)
Demonym(s)| Privateer (1706–1714)
Pirate (1714–1718)
Government| Confederated republican proto-state under "Code of Conduct"
Legislature| None (de jure)
Historical era| Golden Age of Piracy

• Established

| 1706

• Disestablished

| 12 December 1718

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Colony of the Bahama Islands

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| Crown Colony of the Bahamas |

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Today part of| The Bahamas[1]
Turks and Caicos Islands[2]

The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the Bahamas during the Golden Age of Piracy[1] for about twelve years from 1706 until 1718. While it was not a republic in a formal sense, it was governed by an informal pirate code, which dictated that the crews of the Republic would vote on the leadership of their ships and treat other pirate crews with civility. The term comes from Colin Woodard's book of the same name.

The activities of the pirates caused havoc with trade and shipping in the West Indies until newly-appointed Royal Governor of the Bahama Islands Woodes Rogers reached Nassau in 1718 and restored British control. Rogers, a former privateer himself, offered clemency to the pirates of the Bahamas, known as the "King's Pardon", an offer many pirates took advantage of. Though a few returned to piracy in the following years, British control of the Bahamas had been secured.

## History

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See also: Piracy in the Caribbean and Golden Age of Piracy

The era of piracy in the Bahamas began in 1696, when the privateer Henry Avery brought his ship the Fancy loaded with loot from plundering Indian trade ships into Nassau harbour. Avery bribed the governor Nicholas Trott with gold and silver, and with the Fancy itself, still loaded with 50 tons of elephant tusks and 100 barrels of gunpowder.[1] This established Nassau as a base where pirates could operate safely, although various governors regularly made a show of suppressing piracy.[3] Although the governors were still legally in charge, the pirates became increasingly powerful.[1]

The era of true pirate control occurred when a combined Franco-Spanish fleet attacked Nassau in 1703 and again in 1706; the island was effectively abandoned by many of its settlers and left without any English government presence.[1] Nassau was then taken over by English privateers, who became completely lawless pirates over time. The pirates attacked French and Spanish ships, while the French and Spanish forces burned Nassau several more times. Pirates established themselves in Nassau, and essentially established their own republic with its own governors. By 1713, the War of the Spanish Succession was over, but many British privateers were slow to get the news, or reluctant to accept it, and so slipped into piracy. This led to large numbers of unemployed privateers making their way to New Providence to join the republic and swell its numbers. The republic was dominated by two famous pirates who were bitter rivals – Benjamin Hornigold and Henry Jennings. Hornigold was mentor to pirates such as the famous Edward Teach, known as "Blackbeard", along with Sam Bellamy and Stede Bonnet. Despite their rivalries, the pirates formed themselves into the Flying Gang and quickly became infamous for their exploits. The Governor of Bermuda stated that there were over 1000 pirates in Nassau at that time and that they outnumbered the mere hundred inhabitants in the town. Blackbeard was later voted by the pirates of Nassau to be their magistrate, to be in command of their republic and enforce law and order as he saw fit.[citation needed]

Pirate Thomas Barrow declared "that he is Governor of Providence and will make it a second Madagascar, and expects 5 or 600 men more from Jamaica sloops to join in the settling of Providence, and to make war on the French and Spaniards, but for the English, they don't intend to meddle with them, unless they are first attack'd by them."[4] The amount of havoc caused by the pirates led to an outcry for their destruction, and finally King George I appointed Woodes Rogers as royal governor of the Bahamas to bring the piracy to an end,[5][6][7][8] and offered a pardon to all pirates who turned themselves in.[9]

### End of the Republic

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Further information: 1717–1718 Acts of Grace § New Providence

News of the King's Pardon was brought first from Bermuda,[10] then by Captain Vincent Pearse of HMS Phoenix,[11] and received a mixed reception,[10] some of those rejecting the pardon being Jacobites.[12] Pearse made a list of 209 pirates on New Providence – fewer than half the pirates on the island – who stated their intention to take the pardon.[12]

In 1718, Rogers arrived in Nassau with a fleet of several ships, bringing with him the authority to grant the King's Pardon. Among those who accepted was Benjamin Hornigold, and, in a shrewd move, Rogers commissioned Hornigold to hunt down and capture those pirates who refused to surrender and accept the royal pardon. As a former privateer himself, Hornigold was well placed to understand what needed to be done, and he pursued his former comrades with zeal. Although pirates such as Charles Vane and Blackbeard evaded capture, Hornigold did take ten pirates prisoner and on the morning of 12 December 1718, nine of them were executed. This act re-established British control and ended the pirates' republic in the Bahamas. Those pirates who had fled successfully continued their piratical activities elsewhere in the Caribbean in what has become known as the Golden Age of Piracy.

## Code of conduct

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Main article: Pirate code

The pirates ran their affairs using what was called the pirate code, which was the basis of their claim that their rule of New Providence constituted a kind of republic.[13] According to the code, the pirates ran their ships democratically, sharing plunder equally and selecting and deposing their captains by popular vote.[14] Many of the pirates were privateers out of work since the end of the Queen Anne's War and ex-sailors who had revolted against the conditions on merchant and naval ships. Africans could be equal members of the crew, and several people of mixed European and African descent became pirate captains. Some of the pirates were also Jacobites, who had become pirates to help restore the recently deposed Stuart line to the throne. A few female pirates like Anne Bonny and Mary Read were also present.[15]

## Pirates of Nassau

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* Charles Vane

* Edward Teach

* Jack Rackham

### Captain Pearse's list of pirates intending to take the King's Pardon

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List of pirates on New Providence who surrendered to Captain Pearse[16]

1. Parker Adams
2. Arthur Allen
3. James Coates
4. John Dalrymple
5. Benjamin Hornigold
6. Josiah Burgess
7. Francis Leslie
8. Thomas Nichols
9. Paulsgrave Williams
10. John Lewis
11. Richard Noland
12. John Martin
13. William Connor
14. Thomas Grahame
15. Thomas Terrell
16. John Ealling
17. Robert Wishort
18. James Gratrick
19. Edward Stacey
20. John Fennet
21. John Hunt
22. John Pearse
23. James Bryan
24. Henry Berry
25. Thomas Lamb
26. John Allen
27. Martin Carroll
28. Thomas Clies
29. John Kipperson
30. John Charlton
31. Francis Charnock
32. David Merredith
33. Edward Nowland
34. James Goodson
35. Dennis McCarthy
36. Rowld Barton
37. George Gador
38. George Mann
39. Richard Richards
40. Anthony Jacobs
41. Nabel Clarke
42. Henry Hawkins
43. Daniel White
44. Edward Savory
45. Peter Marshall
46. Archibald Murry
47. Daniel Hill
48. William Davey
49. Richard Taylor
50. Martin Townsend
51. Michl. Scrimshaw
52. Samuel Richardson
53. Robert Brown
54. Henry Cheek
55. Robert Hunter
56. James Moodey
57. Richard Kaine
58. Thomas Birdsale
59. Robert Dryker
60. Daniel Carman
61. John Dunkin
62. Geo Feversham
63. John Barker
64. Thomas Codd
65. William Roberts
66. John Waters
67. William Austin
68. Francis Roper
69. Griffith Williams
70. Edward German
71. John Clarke
72. Richard Bishop
73. Henry Barnes
74. Daniel Champeon
75. John [B/R]owell
76. William Willis
77. Tristram Wilson
78. Daniel Jones
79. Phillip Calvorley
80. James Brown
81. John Sutton
82. George Raddon
83. Adam Forbes
84. Cornelius Mahon
85. Thomas Pearse
86. David Ross
87. Jacob Johnson
88. William Bridges
89. Robert Brown
90. Rt. Moggridge
91. Henry Shipton
92. John Cullomore
93. Peter Johnson
94. Charles Morgan
95. John Auger
96. William South
97. Marmaduke Gee
98. James Morvat
99. Benjamin Turner
100. John Mutlow
101. John Stout
102. Thomas Reynolds
103. James Wheeler
104. Alexander Lyell
105. William Rouse
106. Joseph Clapp
107. Peter Goudet
108. Mark Holmes
109. Daniel Stillwell
110. John Edwards
111. Charles Garrison
112. Joseph Pearse
113. William Grahame
114. Alexander Campbell
115. James Nevill
116. James Fasset
117. Edward Berry
118. John Andrews
119. David Nearne
120. Garrt. Peterson
121. Richard Divelly
122. Charles Vane
123. Roger Houghton
124. Richard Valentine
125. Samuel Bryce
126. Richard Legatt
127. Richard Rawlings
128. Darby Connelly
129. Arthur Van Pelt
130. John Richards
131. Samuel Beach
132. William Peters
133. John Smith
134. George Sinclair
135. William Hasselton
136. William Harris
137. William Chow
138. Abraham Adams
139. Joseph Thompson
140. James Peterson
141. Peter Mallet
142. William Titso
143. John Arterile
144. John Mounsey
145. John Johnson
146. John Poley
147. John Farrow
148. Samuel Addy
149. John Magness
150. Thomas Trouton
151. Edward Miller
152. Daniel Swoord
153. Richard Earle
154. Anthony Kemp
155. John Carye
156. Robert Shear
157. John Mitchele
158. Edward Rogers
159. Michl. Rogers
160. John Kemp
161. John Sipkins
162. Othenius Davis
163. William Pinfold
164. Pearse Wright
165. Jacob Roberts
166. William Williams
167. Edward Wells
168. John Cockram
169. Joseph Fryers
170. George Rounsivell
171. John Creigh
172. William Roberts
173. Matthew Reveire
174. Joseph Michelbro
175. Robert Bass
176. James Kerr
177. Edward Kerr
178. Thomas Williamson
179. Thomas Chandler
180. Samuel Moodey
181. William Spencer
182. William Hunt
183. Nathaniel Hudson
184. William Smith
185. Adonijah Stanbury
186. Edward Bead
187. Edward Parmyter
188. Thomas Stoneham
189. John Crew
190. William Edmundson
191. Richard Hawks
192. Andrew Daws
193. Thomas Pearse
194. Richard Ward
195. Henry Glinn
196. Leigh Ashworth
197. Dominic Dwoouby
198. George Chissom
199. David Turner
200. Clois Derickson
201. Thomas Bradley
202. Thomas Emly
203. Nicholas Woodall
204. Edward Hays
205. Christopher Peters
206. John Jackson
207. Charles Whitehead
208. Edward Arrowsmith
209. John Perrin

Bold names indicate 19 pirates who resumed piracy while Pearse was present.

## In popular culture

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In Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, fictional character Edward Kenway helps to seize control of Nassau and establish the pirate republic with other major pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy.[17][18]

The TV series Black Sails is largely based on the history and famous historical pirate inhabitants of Nassau. Several characters' motivations are rooted in the idea of establishing a true "Republic of Pirates" in Nassau.[19]

The Netflix limited series The Lost Pirate Kingdom (2021) is also based on the exploits and rivalries of both the Republic of Pirates as well as the Flying Gang and its members, including Benjamin Hornigold, Sam Bellamy, Henry Jennings, and Blackbeard.

The 2022 HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death features the Republic of Pirates in multiple episodes, as the location of supporting character Spanish Jackie's tavern.

The 2023 web series Pirates SMP[20] is set in a fictionalised version of the republic called The Faction Isles, the main setting of the story and home of the Four Pirate Kingdoms.

## See also

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* 1715 Treasure Fleet
* Brethren of the Coast
* Distribution of justice
* Governance in 18th-century piracy – Organization of the pirates of the 18th century
* Jolly Roger
* Libertatia
* Republic of Salé
* Thalassocracy
* Victual Brothers

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f Woodard, Colin (12 May 2008). The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-41575-8.
2. ^ "History of Pirates on the Islands of Turks and Caicos". TCVilas.com. 15 November 2021.
3. ^ Kazerooni, Bijan (26 April 2018). ""All this Shim-Sham Story of Pyrates is an Impudent Libel upon Great Men": The Suppression of Pirates and the Suppression of Dissent in Walpolean Britain". Voces Novae. 8 (1).
4. ^ Headlam, Cecil (1930). America and West Indies: July 1716 | British History Online (Vol 29 ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 139–159. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
5. ^ Woodard 2007, p. 166.
6. ^ Woodard 2007, p. 167.
7. ^ Woodard 2007, p. 168.
8. ^ Woodard 2007, pp. 262–314.
9. ^ Brigham, Clarence (1911). British Royal Proclamations Relating to America 1603–1783. Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society. pp. 176–180.
10. ^ a b Woodard 2007, p. 228.
11. ^ Woodard, Colin (2014). The Republic of Pirates. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-44-724608-4. "On... February 23, the Phoenix arrived"
12. ^ a b Fox, Edward T. (2010). "Jacobitism and the 'Golden Age' of Piracy, 1715-1725". International Journal of Maritime History. 22 (2): 277–303\. doi:10.1177/084387141002200212. S2CID 162372700. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
13. ^ Ciferri, Alberto (9 August 2019). An Overview of Historical and Socio-economic Evolution in the Americas. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-3821-4 - via Google Books.
14. ^ Leeson, Peter T. (31 March 2009). The Invisible Hook. Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400829866. ISBN 978-1-4008-2986-6 - via degruyter.com.
15. ^ Schulte,=, R. (2016). "But of Their Own Free-Will and Consent: Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Women Pirates in the Early Modern Times". Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History. 6 (1): 13–28\. doi:10.20429/aujh.2016.060102. S2CID 226983057.
16. ^ Brooks, Baylus C. (2015–2017). "Vincent Pearse to Admiralty—3 Jun 1718". baylusbrooks.com. Baylus C. Brooks. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
17. ^ Carter, Justin (19 October 2015). "Here's the Entire Assassin's Creed Story So Far". TwinFinite. p. 4. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
18. ^ Kulcsár, Lili (January 2018). "Introduction". Linguistic Representation of Ethnicities in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (PDF). University of Jyväskylä. p. 7. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
19. ^ "The Truth Behind the Black Sails Saga". Archived from the original on 10 August 2019.
20. ^ "Pirates SMP". TV Tropes. Retrieved 26 March 2025.

## Bibliography

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* Woodard, Colin (2007). The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man who Brought Them Down. New York: Harcourt. p. 383\. ISBN 978-0-15-603462-3.

## External links

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* Cruise Port Insider website on Nassau history Archived 14 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine
* St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum website
* Website of the book The Republic of Pirates by Colin Wodward[usurped] Archived[usurped]
* Website on Pirate Code

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