QMR Stede Bonnet Traditional Cache
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QMR - The Quest for Morgan's Rum
Stede Bonnet was born to a wealthy English family perhaps around the mid-1680's. He grew up well educated and may have served as a major in the King's Guards during the war with Spain before retiring to Barbados as the owner of a sugar plantation.
Bonnet was a well-known and respected family man and member of the highest ranks of the island's society, yet he knew nothing of sailing or navigation. One day, he decided to become a pirate. Whether it was his wife's nagging, the boredom of plantation living, a mental disorder, or all three, Stede Bonnet was driven to buy a sloop, ten cannon, and a crew without his family's knowledge. He then set out on the 'Revenge' one night in the spring of 1717 to go 'on the account'.... dressed in gentleman's clothes.
Bonnet cruised the coast off the Carolinas and Virginia, managing to take several vessels in spite of himself. From the beginning, he would burn any captured ship from Barbados to keep the news from returning home, something a true pirate would care little about. He learned while heading north that New York was a great place to sell his loot without trouble; he later bought provisions and returned south to what he considered more profitable waters.
Many thanks to Mandarin Lake for placing the original cache.
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