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15-750: Baldridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Baldridge (fl. 1690–1697), English pirate Brian Baldridge (born 1969), American politician Cyrus Leroy Baldridge (1889–1977), American artist Daniel Baldridge (born 1985), American football player Drew Baldridge (born 1991), American country music singer/songwriter H. C. Baldridge (1868–1947), governor of Idaho Jim Baldridge (fl. 1960s–2000s), American newscaster See also [ edit ] Baldridge, Indiana , unincorporated community in Indiana, United States Baldrige [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

30-543: A 200-ton, 14-gun French prize called St. Paul . In January 1694 he convinced the Rhode Island General Assembly to convene an Admiralty Court and award him the prize so he could swap vessels, renaming the ship John and Rebecca . He then purchased a second privateering commission from Governor Benjamin Fletcher of New York. Fletcher later claimed no knowledge of Hoar's piracy, despite having previously granted

45-475: A 300-ton Indian ship near Surat . He returned to Baldridge's settlement with the prize in February 1697, where he remained several months, trading with Baldridge and other pirates who called there. In July 1697 the natives rebelled, killing a number of pirates and their crews. Some sources point to Hoar's death during the rebellion; others say he was already dead of illness by that time, and that only his ship and

60-634: A commission to Hoar's own brother-in-law Richard Glover , also a privateer-turned-pirate. The John and Rebecca sailed for the Cape of Good Hope and the Persian Gulf in December 1695. It was during this voyage that Abraham Samuel was elected ship's quartermaster. After some navigation trouble they put in at Adam Baldridge ’s pirate trading post at St. Augustine in Madagascar until April 1696. Before leaving for

75-484: A luxurious and extravagant life on the island, which included his own harem of island women, until 1697 when he was forced to flee to the American colonies after the local tribes discovered he had sold a group of natives as slaves. A number of pirates were killed in the ensuing uprising, including John Hoar , Robert Glover , and the remainder of Thomas Wake 's crew, who had cruised with Tew and Every. Baldridge himself blamed

90-441: A settlement there, trading with pirates and slavers until his death in 1719. After his return to New York, Baldridge presented Governor Bellomont with a plan to establish an English colony at Île Sainte-Marie. Bellomont and his backers were sceptical, given Baldridge's background, and Bellomont lamented that he lacked enough judicial resources and honest officials to prosecute Baldridge. By 1699 Bellomont had ejected Philipse from

105-526: A trader to Antigua; this was a ruse, and as soon as he sailed he turned north to Newfoundland and took to outright piracy, plundering the fishing fleets. John Hoar (pirate) John Hoar (died 1697, last name occasionally Hoare or Hore) was a pirate and privateer active in the late 1690s in the Red Sea area. Hoar and his frigate Dublin had been granted a privateering commission from Governor Sir William Beeston of Jamaica, and near Canada had taken

120-424: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adam Baldridge After fleeing from Jamaica to escape murder charges, Baldridge sailed to Madagascar and, by 1690, had established a base of operations on the island of St. Mary's . By the following year, Baldridge controlled the inland waterway into St. Mary's having established a virtual stronghold overlooking the island harbour as well as protecting

135-618: The surname Baldridge . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baldridge&oldid=1220113938 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of English origin Surnames of British Isles origin English-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

150-711: The Natives and the death of the pirates, for that having inveigled a great number of the natives of St. Maries, men, women and children, on board a ship or ships he carryed and sold them for slaves to a French Island called Mascarine or Mascaron , which treachery of Baldridges the Natives on the Island revenged on those pirates by cutting their throats." Another ex-pirate trader named Edward Welch took over Baldridge's abandoned settlement and fortifications shortly afterwards, but without Philipse's backing had less success. Some years later Dutch ex-pirate John Pro returned to St. Mary's and led

165-648: The Red Sea they picked up some of the surviving crew from Thomas Wake ’s Susanna ; Wake and a number of his crew had taken sick and died of illness a short while earlier. Hoar sailed alongside Dutch pirate Dirk Chivers in the Red Sea, plundering several ships including the Bombay-bound Rouparelle and Calicut in August 1696. Hoar then parted from Chivers to stalk the Persian Gulf, where in early 1697 he captured

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180-448: The council and suppressed his pirate-trading endeavours. Baldridge later married an ex-pirate's wife, though Bellomont noted that his marriage licence was obtained illegally through a corrupt chaplain, and that the woman was technically still married. Finally Baldridge became a legitimate merchant and died in his seventies. Another source claims that after returning to New York, Baldridge convinced Bellomont to grant him permission to sail as

195-456: The pirates for the natives' hostility: "The above mentioned men that were killed by the Natives, were most of them privateers that had been in the Red Seas and took severall ships there, they were chiefly the occasion of the natives Riseing, by their abuseing of the Natives and takeing their Cattel from them." However, according to William Kidd : "Baldridge was the occasion of that Insurrection of

210-590: The settlements' warehouses. After he had subdued the local tribes, native chieftains would be forced to pay Baldridge to mediate between warring tribes. Baldridge's settlement had become a popular haven among pirates of the Mediterranean with Baldridge supplying pirates in exchange for high fees. Baldridge's trading supplies came from New York merchant Frederick Philipse , who chartered a number of ships under captains John Churcher , Thomas Mostyn , and others; Baldridge sent slaves back in return. Among his customers

225-546: Was Thomas Tew , who visited once in 1693, and whose ship, the Amity , visited again in 1695 after Tew had been killed attacking the Moorish ship Gunsway with Henry Every . Baldridge had just traded with the merchant ship Charming Mary in August 1695, and only a few months later equipped the Amity (with the remains of Tew's crew) who left to hunt down the very same Charming Mary that had just departed. Baldridge reportedly lived

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