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	Stede Bonnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate," was one of the most interesting but least successful pirates.
		Stede Bonnet was an educated land owner in Barbados, owning a profitable sugar plantation near Bridgetown.
		Bonnet and his crew were tried and most sentenced to death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stede_Bonnet (364 words)

	Info and facts on 'Stede Bonnet' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Major Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate," was one of the most interesting but least successful pirate (Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation) s.
		Stede Bonnet was an educated land owner (additional info and facts about land owner) in Barbados (Easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles north of Venezuela), owning a profitable sugar (A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative) plantation (A newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)) near Bridgetown.
		Bonnet enjoyed some modest success taking vessels off Virginia (A state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War) and the Carolinas, despite his total lack of any experience at sea.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stede_bonnet.htm (532 words)

	Stede Bonnet. Pirates, Buccaneers, Privateers & Swashbucklers.
		Bonnet came from an upright English family, possessing a liberal education & was known to be ‘‘A Man of Letters’’.
		There was little Bonnet could do or say & soon after one of Blackbeard’s lieutenants, by the name of Richards took over command of, the Revenge & quickly stifled the threat of mutiny by imposing stern discipline, and gaining the crew’s confidence.
		Stede Bonnet was hung for piracy on December 10, 1718.
	www.vleonica.com /bonnet.htm (741 words)

	Major Stede Bonnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bonnet was tried and hanged in November 1718; 22 of his crew were also executed and 29 acquitted.
		Bonnet is probably one of the more inept pirates that is referenced in the common literature.
		Bonnet is a puzzle, we know he acted as a pirate and was hung for it, but there are a number of questions left lingering.
	www.geocities.com /pirates_hold/roster/stede_bonnet.html (596 words)

	Charleston Best Read Guide: Pirate Stede Bonnet 01/14/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bonnet was a blustering know-it-all and it was momentarily clear to Teach that he had a rummy on his hands.
		Bonnet and his crew were quickly arrested by the so-called "Scourge of the Pirates," Colonel William Rhett, leader of the Charleston militia.
		Bonnet was so deathly afraid that his bellicose wife would seek him out after death, he arranged to be buried in the marshes at the end of the peninsula so she couldn't find his grave.
	www.bestreadguide.com /charleston/stories/19990114/fea_piratestede.shtml (581 words)

	bonnet.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stede Bonnet had a good upbringing and was very well mannered.
		Bonnet and his 33 crew members were returned to Charleston to be put on trial.
		Bonnet was in prison for a while and wrote a passionate letter to the Governor, pleading for his life.
	sciway3.net /2001/sc-pirates/bonnet.html (493 words)

	Stede Bonnet
		Major Stede Bonnet was one of the more unique pirates commonly known as the "gentleman pirate." His background was not that of a typical pirate and he was not that entirely successful as one either but he became well known for his actions, in particular when he traveled with the notorious Blackbeard.
		Bonnet was a retired Major in the King's Guards who lived with his wife on his large estate in Barbados.
		Bonnet and his captured crew were returned to Charleston where he was well known for his particapation in the siege of their harbor.
	tinpan.fortunecity.com /lennon/897/bonnet.html (826 words)

	STORY THREE
		As Stede watched the ships come and go from his tiny island, he began to formulate his plan, and when presented with the opportunity to purchase a vessel at auction, Stede snatched it, telling friends he was to go into the shipping business.
		Bonnet, convinced that Teach's acceptance was undoubtedly the result of Bonnet's formidable reputation, quickly agreed.
		Stede Bonnet, intoxicated by pride as much as by liquor, consented to relinquish command of his vessel.
	www.waltsadventure.com /STORY4.HTM (1699 words)

	Barbados Archives- WorldSagas.com-3.001-Pirate ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stede Bonnet had never set foot on a ship except as a passenger, and it was therefore with amazement that his friends learned that this peaceful, law-abiding citizen had left to sail the seas.
		Stede Bonnet's imagination was inflamed by the adventures of sea rovers, just as Don Quixote had been fascinated by tales of chivalry.
		Bonnet, humiliated, suffered from this isolation, from his uselessness, and gradually became disgusted with the life of a pirate.
	axses.com /encyc/bta/archives/detail-memo.cfm?ID=438 (1925 words)

	Barbados History Stede Bonnet, the pirate who ran away from his nagging wife.
		Stede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate, was a local JP, a major in the army, and the owner of Upton Plantation, as well as the area now known as Bonnets.
		Bonnet once again became a pirate captain but was soon captured, tried and hanged in Charleston, South Carolina.
		Stede Bonnet the pirate who turned to the seas to escape his nagging wife.
	www.vob929.com /html/barbadiana1.cfm (211 words)

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		But besides the general reasons why Major Bonnet should not become a pirate, and which applied to all men as well as himself there was a special reason against his adoption of the profession of a sea-robber, for he was an out and out landsman and knew nothing whatever of nautical matters.
		Bonnet’s vessel was named the Revenge, which was about as ill suited to the vessel as her commander was ill fitted to sail her, for Bonnet had nobody to revenge himself upon unless, indeed, it were his scolding wife.
		Bonnet now pointed the bow of the Revenge southward - that is, he requested somebody else to see that it was done - and sailed to the Bay of Honduras, which was a favorite resort of the pirates about that time.
	erl.tamu.edu /jvh/BSABooks/Stockton-Buccaneers-Chap24.txt (952 words)

	Blackbeard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bonnet had been raiding the coast in his ship the 'Revenge' and was quite good at being a stealthy pirate also.
		Bonnet got word of this action and was so mad that he had not gotten part of the booty and that his ship had been abandoned in the harbor.
		He had gotten word of what had happened to Stede Bonnet and his men, and not that he really cared what had happenend to his old friend but more to the point that the days of piracy were coming to a close.
	rmapiratescove.homestead.com /Blackbeard.html (1224 words)

	Carolina Morning News on the Web \| Local News - The mystery of the Carolina's 'gentleman pirate,' Stede Bonnet 07/23/01
		The mystery was why Stede Bonnet, an educated man from a respectable family, chose to embrace this criminal lifestyle.
		Bonnet managed to escape (rumor states dressed in women's clothing), but was re-captured on Sullivan's Island by none other than Colonel Rhett again.
		Bonnet's body was left to hang for days before being cut down and buried in the marsh.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/072301/LOCgenerations.shtml (694 words)

	Teach's Hole Exhibit - Stede Bonnet
		Bonnet was a retired army officer who owned a large sugar plantation on the island of Barbados.
		Blackbeard and Bonnet decided to sail together but within a few days Blackbeard was convinced that Bonnet knew nothing about maritime life.
		After a fierce battle with 42 casualties, Bonnet was taken prisoner and was returned to Charleston for trial.
	www.teachshole.com /bonnet.htm (374 words)

	Blackbeard!
		Stede was a retired British Army Major and gentleman plantation owner in Barbados.
		Stede Bonnet decided to leave with part of the crew on board the other ship and set sail for parts unknown.
		Stede Bonnet was captured some months later near the town of Southport or Smithville as it was then known and with most of his crew was taken to Charles Town and hung on the public gallows.
	www.outerbeaches.com /OuterBanksHistory_Blackbeard (1310 words)

	Famous pirates, privateers, and pirate history
		Major Stede Bonnet was a well educated, highly respected man who in mid-life decided to embark upon a career of piracy.
		Leaving behind his life as a gentleman planter in Barbados, Bonnet purchased himself a ship that he named “Revenge” and set out upon the seas in the dead of night without so much as a goodbye to even his wife.
		Bonnet was captured by Colonel William Rhett, was tried for piracy and hanged December 10, 1718.
	ks.essortment.com /famouspiratesp_rouj.htm (885 words)

	Pirate History: Famous Pirates, Privateers, Buccaneers, and Corsairs A-B
		Stede Bonnet was a wealthy man who started his career in pirary in 1717, purchasing a sloop and outfitted it with ten guns.
		They returned to Revenge (which Blackbeard promised to return to Bonnet) but found that Blackbeard had scammed them of all the plunder when all that was left was the empty sloop for Bonnet.
		Bonnet was hanged at Charleston harbor in South Carolina that same year.
	www.privateerdragons.org /pirates_famous.html (3269 words)

	STEDE BONNET
		Bonnet did another unheard of thing by paying his crew out of his own pocket, instead of drawing up a contract for them to sign.
		During the increasing hostilities, Bonnet dropped anchor in the Bay of Honduras, where he met up with the Queen Anne’s Revenge, along with her captain, the fearsome Edward Teach, nicknamed "Blackbeard".
		There was little Bonnet could do or say, and soon one of Blackbeard’s lieutenants, by the name of Richards, took over command of the Revenge, and quickly stifled the threat of mutiny by imposing stern discipline, and gaining the crew’s confidence.
	www.cosmosmith.com /bonnet.html (613 words)

	Gamehelper Consoles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After a nasty river battle Bonnet and his crew were captured and taken in chains to Charles Town.
		Bonnet's body was buried secretly in the marshes outside of town.
		Local legend says that Bonnet requested that his bones be hidden because he feared that his wife would seek vengeance on his body after his death.
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		In particular, these observations will discuss Blackbeard's relationship with two other pirate captains, Benjamin Hornigold and Stede Bonnet, the description of the pirate vessels used by Blackbeard and his associates, the number of cannon that were installed on Queen Anne's Revenge, and the number of pirates in Blackbeard's crew.
		But a few days after, Teach, finding that Bonnet knew nothing of a maritime life, and with the consent of his own men, put in another captain, one Richards, to command Bonnet's sloop, and took the major on board his own ship [Queen Anne's Revenge].
		Bonnet is mentioned by name in several of those accounts, and his presence with Blackbeard has been well documented in other sources, including the records of Bonnet's trial in Charleston, South Carolina.
	www.qaronline.org /history/timechart.htm (4001 words)

	Famous Pirates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nicknamed "The Gentleman Pirate," Stede Bonnet originally came from a wealthy, upright English family.
		He was a major in the English navy, possesed a liberal education, and had become successful enough in his own right to live comfortably as a planter.
		After essentially being under the command of Teach, Stede Bonnet broke ranks with them and began sailing solo once again, only to be captured by Colonel William Rhett and court-martialed.
	t3.preservice.org /T0401591/famous.html (503 words)

	Beware the Buccaneers!
		Bonnet’s inexperience as a pirate was evident—he actually purchased his ship, the Revenge, rather than capturing it, and he paid his crew wages from his own pocket instead of providing a share of the booty.
		Though Bonnet eventually regained control of his ship, he was captured by Colonel William Rhett and sentenced to death on the gallows.
		Bonnet was hung for piracy at White Point on Dec.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /archives/Mar2004/Print/Buccaneers.htm (783 words)

	Saturday Night You: Spanish Scourge
		Stede Bonnet: Oh that be enough with your not so wise-cracking as well.
		Stede Bonnet: Well, he appears to suffer from some sort of mental disturbance...but if that makes him crazy enough to board a ship full of pirates and fight his way to the audition then that’s all right by me.
		Stede Bonnet: (looks into camera then at Seacrest)Seriously matey, we’re gonna have to get you some time in dry dock, soon.
	snlyou.jt.org /archives/04/04lspanish.phtml (861 words)

	Pirates!: Fact, Well Known Pirates: Stede Bonnet
		It was this strategy however, that kept him from being deposed by the crew, and let him remain in command.
		Soon after, the two parted, and Bonnet left his ship for the town of Bath and surrendered himself as a reformed pirate to the Governor of North Carolina, Charles Eden.
		This act however did not subside Bonnet’s desire for Piracy, and he continued to scour the sea for vessels until his capture by Colonel William Rhett, from whom he escaped only to be recaptured, and brought to trial under a Court of Vice-Admiralty in Charles Town (Charleston), South Carolina.
	www.piratesinfo.com /fact/pirates/bonnet.html (780 words)

	Richard - Pirates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She was the ten-gun pirate sloop Revenge from Barbados, commanded by Stede Bonnet.
		Soon after agreeing to sail together, Blackbeard thought that Bonnet was a poor leader and an incompetent sailor.
		Stede Bonnet helped the marooned men, and in return they agreed to obey his commands.
	netdial.caribe.net /~rich/piratesbio.htm (8883 words)

	Stede Bonnet
		Stede Bonnet was a gentleman of good reputation from the island of Barbados who was said to have taken up piracy on account of a nagging wife.
		Bonnet was chastened by this experience but decided to try his hand at piracy once more.
		"You, the said Stede Bonnet, shall go from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck till you are dead.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /amusement/golf/200/stede.html (286 words)

	Watershed: Pirates
		In this case, the much better-known story of Stede Bonnet, of Barbados.
		Bonnet was a successful planter, but for some unknown reason he decided he wanted to be a pirate instead.
		It's a shame that Ferraris didn't exist in 1717, or Stede Bonnet might have had a happier unhappy life.
	watershed.typepad.com /watershed/pirates (429 words)

	The Old Exchange - History
		Among the ships’ captains under his [Blackbeard’s] overall command was Major Stede Bonnet, one of the oddest pirate leaders afloat.
		Major Bonnet, being "a gentleman," was quartered in the house of Marshall Partridge.
		This time the planter-turned-pirate was tried and sentenced to "be hanged by the neck till you are dead." The public hanging took place on December 10, 1718, at White Point, the sandbar at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers.
	www.oldexchange.com /html/history.html (5107 words)

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