Though I posted this a Year ago and have left Pirates alone for a while this is a GREAT find that you have sent ME!
Daughter Elizabeth (who took the name of her step-father, ROUSBY) married a TROMP.!!!!!!!!!!
You see I am a decendent of Mercy SPRAGUE or Spragge as in Sir Edward Sprague. THIS other SPRAGGE.... in command of the rear division of the fleet, he found himself opposed to Cornelis Tromp, whom, it is said, he had pledged himself to bring in alive or dead; and thus not only were the two rears hotly engaged with each other, but more particularly the two flagships. The Royal Prince was presently so much disabled that he shifted his flag to the St. George. Again, the St. George was dismasted, and Spragge was on his way to another ship, when a shot struck the boat, which was immediately sunk and Spragge with it. The peculiar circumstances of his death have given him a celebrity to which his life had not entitled him. Dryden eulogises his courage in his 'Annus Mirabilis'. Brave and resolute he undoubtedly was, and his attack on the Algerine fleet seems to have been skilfully planned and well carried out; but his limited experience at sea can scarcely have made him a seaman, and if it is true, as alleged, that the dividing the fleet in June 1666 was on his suggestion, his ideas of naval strategy were as faulty as his ideas of naval tacticvs, which led him, on 11 August 1673, to separate the rear of the fleet from the centre, in order to settle his private quarrel with Tromp. ****
He seems to have some Pirate connection to my family as indicated by this ....*** SPRAGGE, Sir EDWARD (d. 1673), admiral, was born in Ireland, where his father had settled and married Mary, sister of William Legge (1609?-1672) [q. v.] George Legge, lord Dartmouth, was his first cousin. He may have served in the royalist army during the civil war, and not improbably with Rupert in the semi-piratical squadron which he commanded after the king's death.
......These are my lines and I have a Captain Kidd legend to explore in America as well.