Talk:Charles Harris (pirate)

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The contention that Charles Harris was a pirate "during Queen Elizabeth's reign" is off by about a century. QE1 died in 1603 and Harris died in 1723.

Sterlingharris 01:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it seems that whoever wrote that mixed two separate pirates up. The Elizabethan pirate is apparently James Harris: "A ship's master redeemed from slavery in Tunis by [the pirate] Richard Bishop, Harris went to Ireland with Bishop in 1608 and commanded a ship marauding as part of his squadron [until 1611]." (Quoted from Jan Rogozinski, Pirates! An A-Z Encyclopedia ISBN 0-306-80722-X.) Charles Harris, on the other hand, was second mate of a Boston ship captured by George Lowther (pirate) in the bay of Honduras in January 1722. When Edward Low left Lowther in June 1722, Harris went with him but is barely mentioned until replacing Francis Spriggs as captain of Low's consort ship in May 1723. Low abandoned Harris in the encounter with the British warship Greyhound on 21 June 1723, where Harris' ship was captured. "Thirty-seven men were tried at Newport, Rhode Island, where Harris and 26 others were hanged in July." (ibid.) Spuddiwinks (talk) 04:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]