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John Quelch (pirate) : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Quelch (pirate)
John Quelch (1666-June 30, 1704) was an English pirate who had a lucrative but very brief career of about one year. His chief claim to historical significance is that he was the first person to be tried for piracy outside England under Admiralty Law and thus without a jury. These Admiralty courts had been instituted to tackle the rise of piracy in colonial ports where civil and criminal courts had proved ineffective. ==Pirate career== In July, 1703, Governor Joseph Dudley of Boston sent out Captain Daniel Plowman of the ''Charles'' with a privateering license to attack French and Spanish ships off the coast of Newfoundland and Arcadia. John Quelch was Plowman's lieutenant. Before leaving Marblehead, Massachusetts, the ''Charless crew under Quartermaster Anthony Holding mutinied and locked the ailing Plowman in his cabin.〔(New England Pirates ) -ThePiratesRealm.com〕 The crew elected Quelch the captain, who turned the ''Charles'' south. Plowman was thrown overboard, although it was never established whether he was dead or alive at that moment. The crew plundered nine Portuguese ships off the coast of Brazil and gained a large sum of money,〔Gosse, P: "The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers", page 253. Lenox Hill Pub, 1968〕 even though England and Portugal were at peace at the time.〔 -Blind Kat Publishers〕 The ''Charles'' contained large amounts of Brazilian sugar, hides, cloth, guns, gold dust and coins. The loot's total value is estimated at over £10,000 sterling (some £1 million in today's money).〔(Quelch' Gold ) -Summary of the book ''Quelch's Gold〕 Before their capture, legend says the crew buried some of the gold on Star Island off the coast of New Hampshire. In the 1800s some gold coins were found hidden in a stone wall there.〔
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