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Growing up in historical town you learn interesting stories. One of the stories relates to a pirate that terrorized the North Eastern coast. Mostly Cape Ann to the Hudson River mouth in New York.



The story goes that town would set fires at the rivers mouths so that the ship in bad weather and at night to make safe harbor. This happened up and down the coast so ship captains would never think that there was anything wrong.



Well I lived In Ipswich Mass. most of my life and lived on the water in a bay. Across from where I lived is Plumb Island. This is a peninsula in Newbury Mass. At low tide you can almost walk across to it. On the opposite side is another beach at low tide you can walk to.



So, this Pirate would wait until night at low tide at the new moon and bad weather he would set fires on both sides so the ships can harbor safely. But the ships would beach and he and his crew would kill and steal all the cargo. This went on for several years.



So finally the British and the local set a trap. They sen word saying this ship was en route with gold and silver for the colonies and that two other ships full of supplies and arms. The story was passed around all of the taverns up and down the coast. In fact the ships were full of soldiers.



Cape Ann was the first safe harbor to all ships when they arrived to the colonies. So at the new moon and in foul weather sets the his fires. As the ships beached and his pirates raided the ship they found nothing bad soldiers.



The majority of the pirates were killed but orders were given not to kill Captain Jack Millbury. He was also known as Black Jack. Well he was captured and put on trial in Boston by the Governor of Boston appointed from England. He was convicted for piracy and was set to be hung.



The locals from Cape Ann formed a mob and removed him from the local jail in Boston. They brought him back to the spot were he killed rumors of hundreds of seamen. They took and iron shackle and one fathom of iron chain to a boulder that was buried some twenty feet deep in the sand at low tide. They chained him to the boulder and left him out for the tide come in. He screamed and begged and cursed them all for leaving him to die by drowning.



To this day it said that at the new moon or in fowl weather as the tide comes in you can hear his screams for help and curses he screamed out. For years researchers have looked for for the spot where the boulder was buried. In 1996 they found the remains of the iron chain and the boulder at the farthest point at the low tide line.



You make your own conclusions to the story.