About: Cyprian Southack   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

After Queen Anne's War Southack continued in a variety of public service positions, including a seat on the Nova Scotia Council. A storm on the night of 26 April 1717 destroyed The Whydah Gally, flagship of the notorious pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, on the shoals of Cape Cod. Within days, Southack was sent to the wreck site by Massachusetts Bay Governor Samuel Shute, to recover anything of value. He was given specific orders to take from the townsfolk anything they may have taken from the wreck. According to his several letters to the governor, the entire community refused to cooperate, and the coroner even stuck him with the bill after burying 102 bodies washed ashore from the wreck. he informed the governor that, although he was able to see parts of the Whydah on the sandbar some 5

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Cyprian Southack
rdfs:comment
  • After Queen Anne's War Southack continued in a variety of public service positions, including a seat on the Nova Scotia Council. A storm on the night of 26 April 1717 destroyed The Whydah Gally, flagship of the notorious pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, on the shoals of Cape Cod. Within days, Southack was sent to the wreck site by Massachusetts Bay Governor Samuel Shute, to recover anything of value. He was given specific orders to take from the townsfolk anything they may have taken from the wreck. According to his several letters to the governor, the entire community refused to cooperate, and the coroner even stuck him with the bill after burying 102 bodies washed ashore from the wreck. he informed the governor that, although he was able to see parts of the Whydah on the sandbar some 5
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • After Queen Anne's War Southack continued in a variety of public service positions, including a seat on the Nova Scotia Council. A storm on the night of 26 April 1717 destroyed The Whydah Gally, flagship of the notorious pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, on the shoals of Cape Cod. Within days, Southack was sent to the wreck site by Massachusetts Bay Governor Samuel Shute, to recover anything of value. He was given specific orders to take from the townsfolk anything they may have taken from the wreck. According to his several letters to the governor, the entire community refused to cooperate, and the coroner even stuck him with the bill after burying 102 bodies washed ashore from the wreck. he informed the governor that, although he was able to see parts of the Whydah on the sandbar some 500 feet from shore, his week-long efforts to recover anything of value from the wreck were repelled by deadly waves and rip currents cause by the shoals. His letters to the governor and his map of New England, upon which he wrote the location of the Whydah, was instrumental in explorer Barry Clifford's discovery and on-going recovery of the Whydah's artifacts and treasures. He was active in the British fishery at Shelburne and Canso, Nova Scotia. In his later years he apparently lived in Boston, where he died in 1745.
is Commander of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software