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Title
John King: The Boy Pirate
Note 1
John King: The Boy Pirate-Information:
- Passenger on merchant sloop Bonetta with his mother (Jamaica-Antigua)
- Bellamy captured the Bonetta Nov 9, 1716: looted her for 15 days
- King demanded to join the pirates, threatened to kill himself if restrained, threatened his mother
Note 2
John King-information
- Died in the Whydah wrek, age at most 11
- Remains identified 2006: 11-in fibula in a shoe and silk stocking
Map labels
- Jamaica — "Where Bonetta came from"
- Caribbean Sea — "Where Bellamy captured the Bonetta Nov 9, 1716; looted her for 15 days"
- Antigua — "Where the Bonetta was supposed to go"