Some articles I have in a file:
"Pirates and Prohibition" Excerpted from "East Hampton History" by Jeannette Edwards Rattroy, copyright 1953, printed by Country Life Press, Garden City, NY
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www.longislandgenealogy.com/pirates.html)
Unknown source, photocopies of some pages in a book a lady sent me, pgs 77-84 and looks like book may have been published around 1850. Can snail mail these if interested.
"Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast" by Edward Rowe Snow, The Yankee Publishing Company, 72 Broad Street, Boston, 1944. Has plate ("photo") of KIDD.
My story: I am distantly related to Joseph BRADISH, a pirate, born in Cambridge, Mass 28 Nov 1672. Many mistaken him as being associated with KIDD. The only relationship between the two goes back to the jail in Boston. Caleb RAY, a jailer, was a relative of Joseph BRADISH. He allowed BRADISH and another man (Tee WETHERLY) escape. RAY was discharged of his duties and when BRADISH was captured and put back in the Boston stone jail, he didn't have any family left to let him go again. Between his excape and recapture KIDD was captured and placed in the same jail. Not wanting another escaped pirate, Governor BELLOMONT had KIDD wear irons. KIDD and BRADISH were prisoners on the man-of-war Advice to London. BRADISH and WETHERLY were hanged at Hope Point in London in 1699.