Samuel Bellamy was believed to have been an English sailor who travelled to the New World to seek his fortune.
After arriving there he somehow secured some financial backing from a wealthy merchant in order to persue sunken Spanish treasure to the south. This expedition, however, proved to be totally fruitless.
Returning penniless, Bellamy married for a short time before leaving his wife and children in order to set sail once again in order to try and find his fortune.
Bellamy fell in with Benjamin Hornigold, a well known pirate who had enough honour to treat his prisoners well and refrain from attacking English shipping. After a short while Harigold was deposed and Bellamy was voted into the position of captain.
He took the crew to the West Indies where he had great success as a pirate. Like Hornigold, Bellamy looked after his prisoners but also knew how to take care of his men too.
In April 1717 Bellamy’s fleet became engulfed in an intense storm during which his flagship, the Whydah, capsized and was destroyed. Only two men survived the incident, one of which went into obscurity, the other, Thomas Davis, would go on to tell the story until it entered folklore.
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