William Claiborne P.O.T.C. #1
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jray8
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Released:
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
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Origin:
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Maryland, United States
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Despite early efforts to keep piracy out of Chesapeake waters, pirates could not long be confined to the high seas. By 1635, the first act of piracy had been committed on the Chesapeake. William Claiborne, owner of a plantation on Kent Island, sent his agent to capture a small pinnace as it approached Palmer's Island at the head of the Bay. Fueled by growing tensions between Maryland and Virginia, Claiborne (a Virginian) was likely incensed that the Maryland pinnace had invaded territory of his Kent Island plantation. The event sounded the starting gun for almost two hundred years of piracy in the Bay.
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