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Walter Kennedy (ca. 1695 - July 21, 1721) was an English pirate who served as a crew member under Howell Davis and Bartholomew Roberts. ==Early life== Walter Kennedy was born in 1695 at a place called Pelican Stairs in Wapping, London.〔Hayward, Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals〕 Possibly one or both of his parents were of Irish descent due to the fact that Bartholomew Roberts considered him to be Irish.〔A General History of the Pyrates Book by Charles Johnson〕 Kennedy was a Burglar and Pickpocket in London.〔Pirates: A History By Tim Travers〕 Later he became an apprentice to his father who was an anchor smith, and Walter carried out house-breaking in his spare time. His apprenticeship however, came to an end with the death of his father, and he decided to go to sea.〔Hayward, Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals〕 He served in the Royal Navy during the War of Spanish Succession, where he heard tales of pirates from Henry Morgan to Henry Every, and dreamed of becoming a pirate himself. He was a crew member on the sloop-of-war ''Buck'', part of the fleet that Woodes Rogers took to the Bahamas in 1718 to suppress piracy there. Woodes sent the ''Buck'' to Havana with a letter for the Spanish governor assuring that official that he was not a pirate, but was in Nassau to suppress piracy. Some recently pardoned pirates were added to the crew of the ''Buck'', and before it reached Havana they, along with some of the original crew, including Kennedy, mutinied, killing the captain, Jonathan Bass, and other crew members who did not join the mutiny.〔Woodard:271〕 Howell Davis, another mutineer, was elected captain. Kennedy was with Davis on the island of Principe when his party was ambushed by the Portuguese. He was the only member of the shore party to escape back to the ship alive. With Davis dead, Bartholomew Roberts was elected as his successor.Roberts and forty of the crew chased a possible prize in a captured sloop off the coast of Surinam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Kennedy (pirate)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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