Having saved Stede's life, the pirate offered to pilot Revenge to Havana , where both of them had business. On arriving in Havana, Stede and Edward headed into the city, eventually ending up in a tavern. There, Edward was recognized by a privateer , who knew of Kenway being a pirate, and of his ties to those in Nassau.
The two engaged in a fight after Edward's attempt to silence him, drawing the attention of some nearby Spanish guards. Stede was mistaken for Kenway's accomplice and severely beaten by the guards, having his sugar confiscated in the process. Once Kenway had returned from avoiding the soldiers, he found a battered Bonnet by the docks, who told the former that the soldiers had confiscated Edward's possessions, as well as the sugar. Edward then agreed to retrieve Bonnet's cargo at the same time as his own effects, but could not fulfill on his promise.
Fortunately however, Stede was still able to make a profit with his remaining inventory, and Kenway then confessed his real first name to Bonnet. Later on, Bonnet spotted Kenway with the Templars and excitedly called him by his real name, nearly blowing his cover, to which Kenway was quickly able to talk his way out of trouble.
Kenway later met with Bonnet and complained about the small pay he received from the governor Laureano de Torres y Ayala for the items he brought. Bonnet, on the other hand, was really trying to inform Kenway of his great sales from the day. Around his twenty-ninth birthday, Bonnet grew restless with "the tedium of domesticity", which may have been exacerbated by the death of his son.
This prompted him to take up a life of piracy, hiring a crew of seventy men. To maintain a part of his life of comfort, he installed a full library in the captain's quarters of his ship, and dressed in fine pajamas, smoking jackets, and frocks. Near the end of , Stede bid his wife and children farewell, sailing north from Barbados, never to see them again. Sailing under the moniker "Captain Edwards", Stede was eager to take his first prize.
His crew foolishly chose a Spanish Man O' War as their first target, and nearly half of his crew was killed or injured during the battle. Bonnet survived, and set sail for Nassau, meeting and befriending fellow pirate, Edward Thatch. Thatch convinced Bonnet to hand over the Revenge , leaving Bonnet happily confined to his cabin.
Thatch continued to mentor Stede for a time on board the Queen Anne's Revenge , where Bonnet reunited with his old friend Edward Kenway, while searching for medicines for Nassau in the old ship wrecks. There, he became an unfortunate victim of Thatch's fear tactics, which frightened him speechless.
After the battle, Thatch allowed Bonnet to leave his service, returning him the Revenge. Meeting Kenway for the final time, Bonnet joyfully bade his friend farewell, thanking him for their friendship, which he claimed was "more precious than any treasure". Feeling that he had received adequate tutelage under Thatch, Bonnet had hoped to return to the Caribbean and receive a letter of marque from the Danish governor of St.
Thomas to go privateering against Spanish ships. Stede Bonnet, nicknamed the "gentleman's pirate" for his pre-criminal life as a wealthy landowner, was born on the island of Barbados.
His father owned a large estate, and after his death in the property and its assets were bequeathed to Stede. At the age of 21, he married Mary Allamby, who later gave birth to three sons and a daughter. Mary passed away before , but his young children would live to see their father, driven away by the nagging of his wife, abandon them and turn, rather unexpectedly, to a life of piracy. Despite his lack of experience or knowledge of shipboard life, Bonnet set out in the spring of to sail the high seas and plunder all those he met.
He purchased a ship, equipped it with six guns, and named it the Revenge. Bonnet's initial voyage took him to Virginia, where he captured and plundered four vessels before sailing north to New York and taking two more ships. By August, he had returned to the southern coast and set course for Nassau, an famous pirate den.
On the way there, he encountered a Spanish warship, which he finally managed to escape, his ship badly injured and half his crew killed.
After threatening to kill Wragg and the hostages, Teach was able to convince Governor Robert Johnson to exchange them for medical supplies. He was laying a plot to cheat Bonnet by running with the valuables the pirate fleet had stolen and sharing it with only a few close comrades.
While off the coast of North Carolina, Blackbeard returned Bonnet to the command of the Revenge and falsely announced he planned to seek a Royal Amnesty that was offered to pirates. Bonnet decided to do the same and he did so. But Blackbeard did not. After receiving amnesty, Bonnet returned to the inlet where the Avenger was anchored, but Blackbeard was gone with the loot.
Bonnet and his crew searched for him but failed to find Blackbeard. Although he had just received a Royal pardon, Bonnet soon returned to his old pirate ways off the coast of Virginia. To conceal his identity he assumed the name Captain Thomas and changed the name of his vessel to the Royal James. On July 2, , Bonnet and his crew captured the merchant sloop Fortune off the coast of Delaware Bay. Two days later they seized the sloop Frances. As word reached Charles Town that pirates had gathered at Cape Fear, another pirate threat appeared off the coast of Charles Town.
Pirate Charles Vane threatened the colony with hopes of having the same success as Blackbeard. But Vane may have been warned of the attempt to capture him and he escaped. Rhett then decided to investigate the report of pirates at Cape Fear. On September 26, , Rhett arrived at the Cape Fear but both of his ships ran aground briefly and later dropped anchor for the night.
Bonnet, aka Captain Thomas, sent a small boat down river to investigate. When the scouting party returned with word that armed vessels were at the river Bonnet prepared the Royal James for a fight. He and 33 of his men who survived the gun battle were taken to Charles Town where the crew was placed in the Watch-house.
Bonnet, however, was considered a gentleman. He was held in the house of the provost marshal. They were hanged November 8 at the tip of the Charles Town peninsula.
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