The Pirates of Chesapeake Bay
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During the Golden Age of Piracy, Chesapeake Bay was thick with intrigue, as pirates who spent their winter plundering Spanish treasure in the Caribbean turned north in the spring to prey on British and Colonial shipping in the Chesapeake Bay. They mixed with other sailor in taverns in Hampton and other seaside communities, and sailed up the bay’s many rivers and creeks, looking for more practical plunder – sails and lines, food stuffs, and manufactured goods.

Colonial governors waged war on the pirates, but to little effect. That is until 1718, when Gov. Alexander Spotswood decided to go after the legendary pirate Blackbeard, and try to end the scourge of piracy once and for all!