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was formed, and our hero was appointed Secretary of State. Eventually Caraccioli died fighting during a sudden attack made on the settlement by a neighbouring tribe. CARMAN, THOMAS. Of Maidstone in Kent. Hanged at Charleston in 1718 with the rest of Major Bonnet's crew. CARNES, JOHN. One of Blackbeard's crew. Hanged at Virginia in 1718. CARR, JOHN. A Massachusetts pirate, one of Hore's crew, who was hiding in Rhode Island in 1699. CARTER, DENNIS. Tried for piracy in June, 1704, at the Star Tavern in Boston. One of John Quelch's crew. CARTER, JOHN. Captured by Major Sewall in the _Larimore_ galley, and brought into Salem. One of Captain Quelch's crew. Tried at Boston in 1704. CASTILLO. A Columbian sailor in the schooner _Panda_. Hanged for piracy at Boston on June 11th, 1835. LA CATA. A most blood-thirsty pirate and one of the last of the West Indian gangs. In 1824, when La Cata was cruising off the Isle of Pines, his ship was attacked by an English cutter only half his size. After a furious fight the cutter was victorious, and returned in triumph to Jamaica with the three survivors of the pirates as prisoners. One of these was found out at the trial to be La Cata himself. Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica. CHANDLER, HENRY, _alias_ RAMMETHAM RISE. Born in Devonshire, his father kept a chandler's shop in Southwark. An English _renegado_ at Algiers, who had turned Mohammedan and had become an overseer in the pirates' shipyards. He was a man of some authority amongst the Moors, and in 1621 he appointed a slave called Goodale to become master of one of the pirate ships, the _Exchange_, in which one Rawlins also sailed. Owing to the courage and ingenuity of the latter, the European slaves afterwards seized the ship and brought her into Plymouth; Chandler being thrown into gaol and afterwards hanged. CHEESMAN, EDWARD. Taken prisoner out of the _Dolphin_, on the Banks of Newfoundland, by the Pirate Phillips in 1724. With the help of a fisherman called Fillmore, he killed Phillips and ten other pirates and brought the ship into Boston Harbour. CHEVALLE, DANIEL. One of Captain John Quelch's crew. Tried for piracy at Boston in 1704. CHILD, THOMAS. In the year 1723, at the age of 15, he was tried for piracy at Newport, Rhode Island. This child must have seen scores of cold-blooded murders committed while he sailed with Low and Harris. Found to be not guilty.
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