Henry Holloway (pirate)

Henry Holloway
OccupationPirate
Years active1687
Piratical career
Base of operationsAmerican east coast

Henry Holloway (fl. 1687) was a pirate active off the American east coast, from South Carolina to Maine.

History

Holloway was recorded as capturing a small ship which had left Barbados for the Carolinas in 1687. He took some of the crew prisoner and sailed north, anchoring for a time in Casco Bay, Maine.[1] While there at least one of the prisoners escaped and petitioned a local English official for assistance in returning to Barbados.[2] Local rumor had it that Holloway may have buried some of his treasure on Maine’s Jewell Island.[3]

John Boone was a member of South Carolina Governor James Colleton’s Grand Council in Charleston. The Lords Proprietors in England wrote to Colleton on March 3, 1687, accusing Boone of smuggling supplies to Holloway and helping hide his plunder.[4] Boone was expelled from the Council but was subsequently reappointed, causing the Lords Proprietors great consternation:

"Lords Proprietors of Carolina to Governor James Colleton. ... We see by the Minutes of Council that there was evidence that Mr. John Boone had not only helped the pirates Chapman and Holloway with victuals, but had taken and concealed part of their stolen goods, for which he was rightly expelled [from] the Grand Council. But we hear since that he is again chosen, and is sitting in the Grand Council. This must not be. Men convicted of such misdemeanours must not be chosen again and restored. You will put him out, and see that another is chosen in his place. We are sorry to see the proneness of the Parliament of Carolina to such proceedings, and hope that they will not occur again."[5]

At least one researcher thinks "Chapman and Holloway" may have been aliases of buccaneers John Markham and Bartholomew Sharp, stopping to resupply after a raid on Campeche.[6]

See also

Other pirates who escaped justice with help from local Charleston residents and officials:
  • Charles Yeats, who was able to buy and bribe his way into a pardon in Charleston
  • Stede Bonnet, who was jailed but escaped with the help of a Charleston merchant and ex-pirate

References

  1. ^ Dow, George Francis; Edmonds, John Henry (2012). The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730. New York: Courier Corporation. p. 31. ISBN 9780486138145. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  2. ^ Little, Charles; Brown, James (1838). COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Boston: Freeman and Bolles. p. 157. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  3. ^ LiBrizzi, Marcus (2017). Haunted Islands in the Gulf of Maine. Lanham MD: Down East Books. ISBN 9781608939794. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  4. ^ Little, Benerson (2007). The Buccaneer's Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688. Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc. p. 70. ISBN 9781597971010. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  5. ^ Fortescue, J.W. (1899). America and West Indies: March 1687, 1-15 | British History Online. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 324–343. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  6. ^ Laprise, Raynald. "Dictionnaire des flibustiers H". diable-volant.github.io. Retrieved 10 May 2024.


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