PIRATES INFESTED CAROLINA
COASTS IN EARLY DAYS
Jn view of the fact that this year
marks the 250th anniversary of the
official establishment of the city of
Charleston, on its present site and the
260th anniversary of the founding of
the Province of Carolina under the
Lords Proprittors, an article in the
current issue of the National Repub
lic entitled "Piracy on the Carolina
Coast" is of special interest. It was
written by Major Henry F. Church,
of Charleston, who says among oth
er things that rival ports in the early
days were wont to charge the people
of Charleston with encouraging
some of the pirates. Be this as it
may, it is a fact that it was finally
due, in a great part, to the eiforts of
the good people of Charleston thai
piracy was finally wiped out in that
section. In part, Major C hurch says:
"Piracy along the Carolina coast
was inevitable. The wild exotic
fringe of islands; crescent beaches
curving off into misty distance, deep
calm bays and winding rivers, in
which to lie in wait or scurry away
as need might be, proved a snug set
ting for so adventurous an enterprise.
Add to this the rich picking to be
found among the galleons of his Most
Catholic Majesty and consider the
economic conditions of the time which
caused the colonists to not always
frown upon this calling, and it is not
difficult to imagine self-respecting
sailormen turning free-booters rather
than waste the abundant opportunity
at hand.
"In the early days of commerce,
competitive ports were wont to charge
Charles Town (as Charleston was
then named) with having openly en
couraged the pirates who were mak
ing life miserable 'for merchantmen
in foreign trade, but whether or not
certain citizens of the Carolinas con
nived, at times, with this sea-faring
gentry, the fact remains that Charles
Town expedition finally wiped out this
menace and put a stop to piracy in
the South Atlantic.
"The first pirates t appear on the
Carolina coast were the mutinous
crews of the three French relief
ships sent in 1564 under Bene Laud
onniere, to bring food to Ribalt's
JYench colonists, at Port Royal. It
seems the land of wealth pictured by
Laudonniere as recruiting propagan
da, failed to measure up to expecta
tions and so his crew went a-pirat-ing.
loiter, after sojourning in the
Caribbean, it is said that they return
ed to the new French colony at Fort
Carolina, and were promptly finished
off by the citizens thereof. Could
these V. , ncli colonists have looked
into the i i:tui ; but a year ahead,
they doubUrs.s would have preserved
their priWii pirates for purposes of
naval defi n?:-. for up from Saint Au
gustine came the black galleys of the
Spaniards and French occupancy at
Fort Carolina ceased abruptly and
completely.
"When next piracy is reported to
long the coa t of the Carolina, it ap
pears shortly following the founding
of the colony and continues practical
ly to the end of the 17th century,
but that many of the gentry were
SIGNS
painted blacker than they really were revocation of these commissions, this
is proved beyond doubt by contem-i free-lance navy found itself without
porary documents. a job. Technically they quit or be-
"It should be borne in mind that came, under the law, pirates. Many
privateering, since the victory of i of them finding the calling profitable
Blake over the Spaniards at Vera j failed to quit."
Cruz in 1657, had received impetus
through the lavish granting ot com- Banks of Anson county are coop
missions, by the English Crown, to I erating with county agent J. W.
u .... i i ... I
rnutrtm m wiNieu.iuprry on amp-: (jameron to pay tne expenses of a
ping out of Spain, and with the dec- young man to assist the agent in the
laration of peace and the subseaunt f1Kht on the cotton boll weevil in An
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