The Gibbs Family of Rhode Island
Author : George Gibbs
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Reference
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Author : George Gibbs
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Reference
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Author : Joseph Gibbs
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781570036934
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of confessions. Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology that informs pirate lore to this day. Joseph Gibbs takes up the task of separating fact from fiction to explicate the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island - in an investigation that reveals a life as riveting as the legend it replaces.Jeffers was the child of a Revolutionary War privateer captain with his own history in the rough work. After a heroic career in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, Jeffers eschewed military life and took to the privateer trade himself. As Charles Gibbs, pirate, he sailed from the ports of Charleston and New Orleans to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still-shockingly violent career of Charles Gibbs across the seas and, in the process, challenges and discredits much of his self-made mythology.Gibbs recounts Jeffers' well-documented role in the infamous mutiny and murders in 1830 aboard the brig Vineyard while the vessel was carrying a load of Mexican silver. The pirate was captured the following year and brought to New York. The case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial, which led to their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island.In addition to recounting the exploits of a ruthless cutthroat, The Confessions of Charles Gibbs tells the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation. Carefully researched, engagingly written, and enhanced by twenty illustrations, this is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
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Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Rhode Island
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : William Eaton Foster
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : Marian Mathison Desrosiers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1476681546
When Thomas Banister fought for the British during the American Revolution, his farm and business were confiscated. He was exiled in far-off Nova Scotia, before he returned to a secluded life on Long Island. His older brother, John Banister married with a child, swore allegiance to the United Colonies, then witnessed the destruction of his Newport lands by the British Army. Convinced British laws supported remuneration, John left for England, where he sought justice for four years. His wife, Christian Stelle Banister, managed the family property and raised their son while the state threatened confiscation and the French Army lived in Newport. Tracing the lives of three young Americans during the Revolution, this study of the Banister family of Rhode Island contributes to an understanding of the war's effects on the lives of ordinary people.
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Vol. 2 indexed by Robert & Catherine Barnes.
Author : Rhode Island Historical Society
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Page : 738 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : William C. Armstrong
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1902
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Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 0806347031
The town of Little Compton, Rhode Island was founded by a band of explorers from Plymouth Colony. From its inception Little Compton has been a bastion of Mayflower ancestry, including that of the Wilbour family of compiler Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Mr. Wilbour devoted much of his life to compiling genealogies of his own and other families of Little Compton. Based upon extensive research in primary sources and featuring numerous illustrations, Little Compton Families is Benjamin Franklin Wilbour's legacy to the descendants of some 200 families, many of whom are traced back to the middle of the 17th century.