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"Who Were The Pirates On Cape Cod?""Did The Pirates On Cape Cod Bury Treasure On Rose Point?"
To avoid pirate teeth, seek help here...The friendly professional dentists, Dr. Anderson and Dr. Palter will ensure that you never have to suffer from pirate teeth. Join our discussion group at "Quick Topic". It's free. Stop by and say "Hello!". One of the most notorious pirates on Cape Cod was Captain Charles Bellamy. This pirate on Cape Cod was famous for his long speeches and was known as the West Indian orator and filibuster. He was a self-proclaimed socialist who followed the pirates code. He is often confused with Black Sam Bellamy, the captain of the treasure ship Whidah.
Bellamy had now chosen a calling that lent itself to his undoubted talents, and his future career, while it lasted, was a brilliant one. But this pirate on Cape Cod came to a bad end. Procuring a ship, he sailed up and down the coast of Carolina and New England, taking and plundering numerous vessels; and when this neighbourhood became too hot for him he would cruise for a while in the cooler climate of Newfoundland. Bellamy had considerable gifts for public speaking, and seldom missed an opportunity of addressing the assembled officers and crews of the ships he took, before liberating or otherwise disposing of them. His views were distinctly Socialistic. On one occasion, in an address to a Captain Beer, who had pleaded to have his sloop returned to him, Captain Bellamy, after clearing his throat, began as follows: "I am sorry," he said, "that you can't have your sloop again, for I scorn to do anyone any mischief—when it is not to my advantage—though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security, for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by their knavery. But damn ye altogether for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls! They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is the only difference that they rob the poor under cover of the law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make one of us than sneak after these villains for employment?" 
Bellamy's fall came at last at the hands of a whaler captain. At the time he was in command of the Whidaw and a small fleet of other pirate craft, which was lying at anchor in the Bay of Placentia in Newfoundland. Sailing from Placentia for Nantucket Shoals, this pirate on Cape Cod seized a whaling vessel, the Mary Anne. As the skipper of the whaler knew the coast well, Bellamy made him pilot of his small fleet. The cunning skipper one night ran his ship on to a sand-bank near Eastman, Massachusetts, and the rest of the fleet followed his stern light on to the rocks. Almost all the crews perished, only seven of the pirates being saved. These were seized and brought to trial, condemned, and hanged at Boston in 1726. The days spent between the sentence and the hanging were not wasted, for we read in a contemporary account that "by the indefatigable pains of a pious and learned divine, who constantly attended them, they were at length, by the special grace of God, made sensible of and truly penitent for the enormous crimes they had been guilty of."
This is only one of the pirates on Cape Cod with the last name of Bellamy. The other Bellamy was Black Sam Bellamy who plundered the treasure ship Whidah and made it his flagship. It was reputed to have 20,000 pounds of gold and silver on board. It broke up in a tremendous northeaster off Wellfleet, April 19, 1717. All hands were lost except for 7 out of a crew of 145. Five were hung in Boston as pirates on cape cod and the other two got off. The Whidah was located off Cape Cod in 1984 by Barry Clifford. Some of its treasure is on display in Provincetown. Among the other priates on Cape Cod, Captain Kidd stands out. As with the other pirates on Cape Cod he came to a bad end. But many people still search for the treasure that Captain Kidd was said to have buried. The World Is Your Oyster - Where Do You Want To Go? The Adventures of Captain Kidd - Chapter 1To Catch A Pirate - Chapter 2 The Kings Commission - William Rex - Chapter 3 Commission Of Reprisals - Chapter 4 After Burying His Bible - Chapter 5 The First Outrage Of Degradation - Chapter 6 The Hostilities Begin - Chapter 7 Kidd Kills The Gunner - Chapter 8 The Coast Is Alarmed - Chapter 9 Malabar Islands - Chapter 10 The Indians - Chapter 11 The Adventure Galley - Chapter 12 Kidd Buries His Treasure - Chapter 13 Captain Kidds Trial - Chapter 14 Defense - Chapter 15 Execution - Chapter 16 Location of Buried Treasure - Chapter 17 
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