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	Woodes Rogers - Famous Privateer - The Way Of The Pirates
		Woodes Rogers was certainly one of the most notable persons that have ever lived in the Caribbean.
		Rogers was faced with serious problem to establish well-organized government and to force the pirates to surrender.
		Woodes Rogers had a "worm" welcome with warring from one of the notorious pirates, Charles Vane, who was aware of his coming.
	www.thewayofthepirates.com /famous-pirates/woodes-rogers.php (659 words)

	The Nassau Guardian Online Guide
		Rogers believed that some of these problems could be overcome by continuing the transition of The Bahamas from a proprietary to a royal colony.
		Despite the fact that Woodes Rogers was the first Governor appointed solely by the Crown, we must not assume that this step completed the transformation, for this was a gradual process.
		From all we know, Woodes Rogers was not a man whom his contemporaries felt much compassion for, though his conduct and reputation earned him respect and inspired obedience.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /social_community/281812215519890.php (934 words)

	Woodes Rogers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rogers was originally a merchant, but in 1708 fellow Bristol merchants, whose ships were falling prey to pirates, sponsored a retaliatory global expedition and selected Rogers to command it, with William Dampier as his navigator.
		Rogers' described his crews as "tinkers, taylors, hay-makers, pedlers, fidlers etc, one negro and about ten boys." His mission was to harass Spanish shipping; to the English he was a loyal citizen but to the Spanish he was a pirate.
		Defoe (1660?-1731) was among Rogers' circle of acquaintances and accomplices that included the famous cartographer Herman Moll (1654-1732), author Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the buccaneer William Dampier (1651-1715) and the field archeologist Rev. Dr.
	home.earthlink.net /~artrogers/Woodes.htm (1595 words)

	Bahamian History On-line/Bahamian Educators/Woodes Rogers
		On February 6, 1718, Rogers was officially appointed Captain - General and Governor in Chief in and over the Bahama Islands by King George I. Thus he became the first Royal Governor of The Bahamas.
		On 1732 Woodes Rogers died and was buried in Nassau.
		The Woodes Rogers Primary School was named to commemorate the contribution of the First Royal Governor to The Bahamas.
	www.bahamasnationalarchives.bs /Bahamian_Educators/Bahamian_Educators_Rogers_Woodes.htm (456 words)

	Woodes Rogers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1717 Rogers was appointed royal governor of the Bahamas.
		Woodes Rogers, succeeded in controlling the pirates but mostly at his own expense.
		Rogers knew the habits of pirates and he was certain that many of the pardoned pirates would go back to their evil ways.
	blindkat.hegewisch.net /pirates/whoswoodes.html (228 words)

	Woodes Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An old engraving of Capt. Rogers, armed with a boarding pike.
		Accounts by Rogers himself and by Rogers' fellow-captain Edward Cooke, written after the return to England, provided valuable ethnographic information on cape's Pericú Indians.
		Rogers was officially appointed "Captain - General and Governor in Chief in and over the Bahama Islands" by King George I of Great Britain on February 6, 1718.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodes_Rogers (316 words)

	Message Board
		His great-grandfather, John Rogers of Poole, married Ann Woods, and from this union the name of Woods (afterwards spelt Woodes) Rogers was perpetuated for at least three generations, until the death of Woodes Rogers's infant son in 1713.
		Woodes Rogers the second, the father of the subject of this book, was a sea-captain, born at Poole in 1650.
		By 1699 Woodes Rogers jnr was only 20, so while it is not impossible that he had been on several voyages to Africa it does seem a little unlikely that he was able to write about such topics in a way that would impress Dampier.
	www.piratesinfo.com /mysql/phorum/read.php?7,158431 (4131 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Rogers,
		Oak Park, Ill. In 1930, Rogers served as director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Rochester, New York.
		Rogers Receives Letter from AT&T Wireless' of its Intention to Explore Monetization of its Rogers Wireless Stake.
		Rogers Communications Reports Strong Fourth Quarter 2003 Results; Quarterly Revenue Grows 13%, Operating Profit up 22% and Capital Expenditures Down 21% as Cable, Wireless and Media Divisions each Deliver Solid Results.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Rogers, (695 words)

	Pirate Authors who wrote historical accounts of their travels and adventures
		In 1708-1711 Dampier sailed with Woodes Rogers as navigator on circumnavigating missions with were induced by privateering.
		Woodes Rogers was considered a privateer to the English, but to the Spanish he was a pirate as with all of the men listed here.
		Woodes Rogers became Governor of the Bahamas in 1718.
	www.buccaneer.net /pirateauthor.htm (2089 words)

	Pirate Walks in Bristol
		Woodes Rogers was a privateer, sanctioned by the English government during the War of Spanish Succession, or Queen Anne's War, as it became known.
		Rogers issued 2.000 coins to commemorate the royal pardons he was issuing.
		On the 1708 Woodes Rogers voyage, Dampier steers the fleet to the remote island of Juan Fernandez for urgent fresh water supplies and is surprised to see an awkward Scotsman that he had abandoned there 4 years earlier on Dampier's previous visit.
	pages.prodigy.net /rodney.broome/piratewalk15woodesrog.htm (869 words)

	Woodes Rogers found Alexander Selkirk
		was visited by Captain Woodes Rogers in 1709 during his voyage around the world in the two ships Duke and Duchess.
		He was at first much pestered with cats and rats that bred in great numbers from some of each species which had got ashore from ships that put in there for wood and water.
		The rats gnawed his feet and clothes whilst asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats' flesh, by which so many of them became so tame, that they would lie about in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats.
	www.islomania.com /JuanFernandez/woodesrogersvoyage.html (324 words)

	Benjamin Hornigold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Woodes Rogers, appointed governor of the Bahamas, arrived in 1718 Hornigold was there to welcome him as one of the leaders of a rable of pirates that remained on the island. Rogers extended the king's pardon to Hornigold among others.
		Rogers thought highly of Hornigold and commissioned him as a privateer to hunt pirates.
		It is quite interesting to note that a man considered by many to have been a founding pirate leader after the War of the Spanish Succession was turned to, by all accounts, a faithful privateer in the service of Woodes Rogers.
	www.geocities.com /captcutlass/bio/hornigold.html (227 words)

	Woodes Rogers - Wikipedia
		Der Sohn präsentiert seinem Vater Woodes Rogers (rechts) Pläne für den Hafen von Nassau.
		Woodes Rogers umrundete als Befehlshaber und Kapitän der Duke (320 Tonnen, 30 Kanonen und 117 Mann) und der Duchess (260 Tonnen, 26 Kanonen und 108 Mann) auf Kaperfahrt 1708-1711 den Globus und brachte reichlich Beute ein.
		Woodes Rogers beschloss, ein Exempel zu statuieren, und 8 von ihnen wurden am 12.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodes_Rogers (831 words)

	Rogers, Woodes - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rogers, Woodes 1679?-1732, British privateer and colonial administrator.
		A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708-9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan Fernández islands.
		He later (1717) leased the Bahama islands and served as the first governor there, expelling pirates and bringing orderly government.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rogers-wo.html (221 words)

	Bristol - 1700 Onwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Captain Woodes Rogers was put in charge of the ships and on 2nd August 1708 they left for a voyage that was to take them round the world.
		Woodes Rogers had this time been hit by a splinter that had knocked out part of his heel bone.
		Woodes Rogers decided to set an example and eight of them were executed on 12th December.
	www.brisray.com /bristol/bhist6.htm (10353 words)

	Will Rogers — FactMonster.com
		A constant booster of airplane travel, Rogers made several long airplane trips; he was killed with Wiley Post when their plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
		Roger of Hoveden - Roger of Hoveden, d.
		Woodes Rogers - Rogers, Woodes, 1679?–1732, British privateer and colonial administrator.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0842255.html (209 words)

	Blackbeard's Realm - Bristol, England, home of Blackbeard
		Another famous voyage from Bristol was Woodes Rogers' privateering/ circumnavigation voyage from 1708-1711 made with the help of William Dampier.
		Rogers discovered marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk on Juan Fernandez island in 1709; Selkirk was the inspiration for Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe.
		Woodes Rogers would later be appointed the first royal governor of the Bahamas, with the charge to rid the area of pirates.
	www.blackbeardsrealm.com /Bristol.html (706 words)

	Pirates & Privateers: the History of Maritime Piracy - Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
		Meanwhile in England, Woodes Rogers mounted another privateering expedition with the same intent as Dampier’s earlier one.
		The son of a prosperous sea captain, Woodes Rogers was born in 1679.
		Woodes Rogers dubbed Selkirk ‘Governor of The Island,’ its ‘Absolute Monarch.’ In a letter to those who had financed the expedition, Rogers wrote: a Scotchmanleft there by Captain Stradlingsurvived four Years and four Months without conversing with any creature, having no Company but wild Goats and his Catt.
	www.cindyvallar.com /selkirk.html (2545 words)

	Captain Benjamin Hornigold
		When Woodes Rogers, appointed governor of the Bahamas, arrived in 1718 Hornigold was there to welcome him as one of the leaders of a rabble of pirates that remained on the island.
		Rogers extended the king's pardon to Hornigold among others.
		A later conflict with some small band of pirates caused Rogers to again turn to Hornigold for help, and this time he was successful, bring in 13 of the band.
	www.thepirateking.com /bios/hornigold_benjamin.htm (362 words)

	Alexander Selkirk, Woodes Rogers, and Daniel Defoe
		Woodes Rogers' privateering expedition returned to England on October 14, 1711.
		Rogers eventually received in excess of £1600, but only after he went bankrupt because the profits weren't dispersed until several years later.
		Five years later, Rogers was appointed Governor of the Bahamas, but those who hired him couldn't afford to pay him.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/pirates/92256/1 (435 words)

	The Narrative Press
		This is the first-hand story of Woodes Rogers, the most successful British privateer ever, and his circumnavigation from 1708 to 1711.
		Rogers' mission was to harass Spanish shipping, and he did it splendidly, capturing two Spanish galleons laden with riches off the Pacific coast of the Americas.
		The author, Richard Walter, was chaplain aboard, and it is interesting to compare this book with Woodes Roger's account of the same voyage.
	www.narrativepress.com /bbtitle.php (1961 words)

	Age of Piracy in the Bahamas
		Blackbeard was out to sea when Rogers eradicated all of the pirates from Nassau, so he moved to another spot in the Caribbean and continued his raids.
		He persuaded her to leave her husband and she joined him on his ship dressed as a man. (Mary Read, disguised as a man, was already part of Calico Jack's crew.) Anne and Mary were both on board when one of Royal Governor Woodes Rogers' pirate-hunters attacked their ship in 1720.
		Rogers, a former privateer, offered amnesty to all those who surrendered - those who didn't would be hanged and their ships sunk.
	www.bahamatravelnet.com /culture/pirates.html (1398 words)

	Rogers Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some Rogers trace their line back to Roger of Montgomery, hero of the Battle of Hastings, or to Roger I, Count of Sicily or Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower, somewhat more realistically, we are the "roger" of English slang, petty thieves and pirates.
		There she wove burlap until a stroke kept her from climbing the stairs and her bedroom had to be moved back downstairs.
		In 1949, Arthur Frank Rogers married Josephine Rita DiMunno and a year later I arrived.
	home.earthlink.net /~artrogers/family.htm (1277 words)

	University of Delaware: TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: Circumnavigations
		Dampier was given command for two more voyages, one to New Holland in 1699, and the other his second circumnavigation 1703 -1706, in the course of which he was present for Alexander Selkirk's voluntary abandonment on Juan Fernandez Island.
		From 1708 to 1711 Dampier made his third and final voyage around the world as pilot to the expedition led by Woodes Rogers.
		Rogers was perhaps the most successful of English privateers.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/voyages/circum.htm (1471 words)

	history
		The people were also known through the centuries as "Lucayans", and "Arawaks." Religious English settlers landed in Eleuthera in the mid-seventeenth century (1647), and on forming the first British colony, became prosperous farming the land.
		Britain claimed the islands in 1670, along with the problem of piracy, which was endemic, with such characters as Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, and Anne Bonney, plying their trade until 1718, when the first governor, Woodes Rogers, drove them out.
		In 1670, after the restoration of the monarchy following the English civil war, the islands were awarded to a group of Royalist supporters known as the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas.
	www.briland.com /topmenu/hist.html (8230 words)

	The Real Robinson Crusoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He offered Rogers’ men goat soup and told his story of survival as best he could.
		Rogers would have so much success off the coast of Peru and Ecuador robbing Spanish galleons that the Duke stayed at sea another two years, not returning to London’s ThamesRiver until October 1711, eight years after Selkirk left it.
		Woodes Rogers and Richard Steele wrote their accounts of Selkirk’s life on Robinson Crusoe Island in 1712 and 1713, respectively, giving the Fife mariner and his family a fame they had never imagined.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2005/july/crusoe.php?page=6 (803 words)

	Prince George Wharf, Nassau
		For those who like observing today's city-size ships, the town offers many vistas, especially from Woodes Rogers Walk, the promenade along the port which runs parallel to Bay Street.
		Woodes Rogers is also where the horse and carriage drivers line up to give rides throughout the downtown and where a hair braiding center caters to those wanting such a hair style.
		Taxis and a ferry to Paradise Island are also found along Woodes Rogers Walk.
	www.planetware.com /nassau/prince-george-wharf-bah-ne-nspg.htm (213 words)

	Pirates & Privateers: the History of Maritime Piracy - Pirate Havens Tortuga and New Providence
		His name was Woodes Rogers, and the government believed that the best way to catch a pirate was to use a pirate.
		Rogers believed if he acted powerful, the pirates would think he actually wielded that much power.
		In December 1718, Rogers reinforced his intent to end piracy by hanging a large number of pirates.
	www.cindyvallar.com /havens5.html (774 words)

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