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Captain Kidd
Beware of the Captain Kidd story.- But the Angells did have some contact with Pirates
If anything, the family were on the other side of pirate operations.
In 1606 William Angell (1560c-1629) rented his ship the Traill to an Arthur Chambers for a trip to Virginia - Arthur did not go there. Instead he sailed around the coast of England, Wales and Ireland selling off the tackle to pay for wild parties on board. It is thought that at one time he also took the boat over to Spain for a spot of Piracy whilst keeping Angell's right hand man Roger Bamford imprisoned on board. Finally he dumped the ship in Ireland and ran off and teamed up with a pirate called Captain Isacock.
John Stockwell, with whom it all began, is supposed to have sailed with the black hearted Captain Kidd and to have shared his treasure. And that, ten years after Kidd was hanged in chains by the London river, Stockwell pulled on his. seaboots again to ship with a greater rascal: Captain Teach (alias Blackbeard) who, chewed wine glasses so that he could spit blood. But John Stockwell, as pirates will, if they are not hanged first, settled down to grow cabbages and to buy up the London land on which they grew. Soon a widow Angell had became his housekeeper. When Stockwell died about 1740, say the old stories, he left no will.
Firstly, Stockwell was the place where the some of the Angells lived - but much of the land was inherited as a result of a marriage between John Angell and Elizabeth Scaldwell in 1666. Elizabeth and her sister Dorothea were the heirs of their father John Scaldwell who died in 1679. Captain Kidd (1645-1701) was around at the same time but by the time he was starting his career John Scaldwell would have been a bit long in the tooth to pull on his 'sea boots'.
Athur Chambers was more of a Highwayman than a Pirate and I can find no written record of him ever sailing on a ship but in a book written in 1813 called "The History of the Lives and Action of the Most Famous Highwaymen" by Captain Charles Johnson, he gives an interesting and amusing insight into the rogue Chambers. The story is available online through a digitalised Google version of the book.
Link to the story
Captain Kidd
Captain William Kidd 1645 - 1701
Captain Teach
Captain Teach (Blackbeard 1734 engraving)
Created on 09/10/2008 12:29 AM by Rod
Updated on 09/10/2008 12:37 AM by Rod
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