e men on each side were as
warmly engaged as their Captains, until the vessel was all over
blood. _Blackbeard_ stood it till he had received above twenty wounds,
five of them being shots, before he fell down dead. Eight of his
fourteen men being kill'd, and the other six being much wounded, they
call'd for quarters; which was granted, and then the Lieutenant
attacked with equal bravery the men that remained in the Sloop and
took them.

The Lieutenant caused _Blackbeard's_ head to be cut off, and hung at
the bowsprit end; with which he sailed to _Bath Town_ to get his
wounded men cured, and then began to rummage the Pirate Sloop, aboard
which they found several Letters of Correspondence betwixt the
Governor of _North Carolina_, his Secretary, and some Traders of _New
York_ and _Blackbeard_. Thereupon going to _Bath Town_ in _North
Carolina_, he seized in the Governors Store-house, the Sixty Hogsheads
of Sugar, and Mr. _Knight_ his Secretary's 20, which was their
dividend of the plunder taken in the _French_ Ship before-mentioned.

After his Men were a little recovered, he returned to the Men-of-War
in _James's_ River in _Virginia_, with _Blackbeard's_ head hanging at
his bowsprit, and 15 prisoners, 13 of whom were hanged, one of them
being taken but the night before out of a trading Sloop: The other,
not being in the fight, was taken at _Bath Town_, being just before
disabled by _Blackbeard_ in one of his drunken humours.

The night before he was killed, being ask'd if he should chance to be
killed, whether his wife knew where his money was; he answered, _That
no-body but himself and the Devil, knew where it was, and the longest
Liver should take all_.

* * * * *

The Names of the Pirates killed in the engagement were _Edward
Blackbeard_, Commander; _Philip Morton_, Gunner; _Garnet Gibbons_,
Boatswain; _Owen Roberts_, Carpenter; _Thomas Miller_, Quarter-Master;
_John Husk_, _Joseph Curtice_, _Joseph Brooks_, _Nath. Jackson_.

The following, except the two last, were hanged, viz.: _John Carnes_,
_Jo. Brookes, jun._, _James Blake_, _John Gibbs_, _Thomas Gates_,
_James White_, _Richard Styles_, _Cesar_, _Joseph Philip_, _James
Robbins_, _John Martyn_, _Edward Salter_, _Stephen Daniel_, _Richard
Greensarl_, _Israel Hands_, and _Samuel Odel_.

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[Illustration: MAJOR STEDE BONNET]

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MAJOR STEDE BONNET, AND HIS CREW

The Major was a Gentlem