The New England Pirate Museum
Who Am I?
DIRECTIONS: Listen closely to your tour guide, and you will be able to identify the people listed below and portrayed in the Museum.
1. ____________________ Captured by pirates and forced to become one, I managed to escape and spent 16 months marooned on an island before returning to my hometown of Marblehead.
2. ____________________ My own men called me a "maniac and a brute"; I made one Spaniard eat the heart of another before I killed him.
3. ____________________ Having been robbed myself, I turned to piracy and became New England's first pirate.
4. ____________________ I raided ships in the West Indies and commanded the "Wydah" until we went down in a storm in 1717.
5. ____________________ I was a puritan minister who encouraged pirates to "return to God".
6. ____________________ I had a reputation of being a "very pleasant man who told wonderful stories".
7. ____________________ I was a privateer hired to find Blackbeard, but I became America's most famous pirate instead. Although the rope broke at my hanging, I was gibbeted for twenty years.
8. ____________________ I was probably the most notorious pirate. I left 14 wives, 40 children and a treasure that may still be buried at the Isle of Shoals.
9. ____________________ Known for my cursing rages and inhuman brutality, I was a pirate chief for only one month before I was hanged and gibbeted in Boston Harbor.
10. ____________________ I escaped the Boston Goal twice; of course, being the jailer's nephew didn't hurt.
11. ____________________ I seized the ship "Charles" just outside Salem Harbor; I was arrested at Lynn's Blue Anchor tavern and hanged in Boston.
12. ____________________ A direct descendent of a Boston Pirate, I served as Fleet Admiral of Pacific Forces in World War II.
13. ____________________ My great-grandfather was a pirate, but I still became thirteenth President of the United States.
14. ____________________ I lived in Lynn Woods in a cave called Treasure Rock. My treasure may still be there.
15. ____________________ My husband and I were New Hampshire pirates. He was drowned, and I was hanged for a murder that I didn't commit.
DIRECTIONS: Listen closely to your tour guide, and you will be able to identify the people listed below and portrayed in the Museum.
1. PHILIP ASHTON Captured by pirates and forced to become one, I managed to escape and spent 16 months marooned on an island before returning to my hometown of Marblehead.
2. NED LOW My own men called me a "maniac and a brute"; I made one Spaniard eat the heart of another before I killed him.
3.DIXIE BULL Having been robbed myself, I turned to piracy and became New England's first pirate.
4. SAM BELLAMY I raided ships in the West Indies and commanded the "Wydah" until we went down in a storm in 1717.
5. COTTON MATHER I was a puritan minister who encouraged pirates to "return to God".
6. THOMAS TEW I had a reputation of being a "very pleasant man who told wonderful stories".
7. WILLIAM KIDD I was a privateer hired to find Blackbeard, but I became America's most famous pirate instead. Although the rope broke at my hanging, I was gibbeted for twenty years.
8. BLACKBEARD I was probably the most notorious pirate. I left 14 wives, 40 children and a treasure that may still be buried at the Isle of Shoals.
9. WILLIAM FLY Known for my cursing rages and inhuman brutality, I was a pirate chief for only one month before I was hanged and gibbeted in Boston Harbor.
10. JOE BRODISH I escaped the Boston Goal twice; of course, being the jailer's nephew didn't hurt.
11. JACK QUELCH I seized the ship "Charles" just outside Salem Harbor; I was arrested at Lynn's Blue Anchor tavern and hanged in Boston.
12. WILLIASM 'BULL' HALSEY A direct descendent of a Boston Pirate, I served as Fleet Admiral of Pacific Forces in World War II.
13. MILLARD FILLMORE My great-grandfather was a pirate, but I still became thirteenth President of the United States.
14. THOMAS VEAL I lived in Lynn Woods in a cave called Treasure Rock. My treasure may still be there.
15. RACHEL WALL My husband and I were New Hampshire pirates. He was drowned, and I was hanged for a murder that I didn't commit.