Thatch was a genius at "presence". His appearance inspired equal parts fear and awe. Careful use of that fear made him one of the smartest pirates of his era. His approach was savvy, ruthless and consistent. It is no wonder his exploits are used and romanticized so frequently in stories. The coolest thing is that the reality was almost as outlandish as the legends. Great historical presentation Colin, thank you!
Yo Colin, according to Oral Family History Thatch(later Teach who took a Cree Woman as a wife) who's Descendents married into the Mt. Currie tribe & are known as Leach to where a flash in the pan musician named George made a name for himself.A John(Jack) Sparrow who also started as a Privateer, what is rarely reported in history is these men were Pirating "Legally" for the Crown of England in recognized Colonies as well as their local waters.Sparrow took a wife from Musqueum village at the mouth of the Fraser River,they are my relatives.How is it that they arrived on the North Northwest Coast?!! There was a Suez Canal long before Colonization.The Chinese & Vikings also visited upon us long before Vancouver & Naverez.
I taught school in Florida and all my kids learned about Gasparilla, Black Caesar, Jean la Fitte and Port Royal, pirates, freebooters, buccaneers, Key West, Spanish-English political antics.. great stories
Well done ! I for years (1989-1998) did costal maritime reenactment aka Piracy . And on several accounts was asked to portray Teach ( I was not in any way tall enough 🤨) ! Based in south east Florida, this was the best reanactment for 16-18th century we could do for the local history ! I do miss those days !
Dayumn! I think you hit the grand slam with this one my man! Definitely knocked another one out the park. Thanks for another rousing recount of another tale in forgotten history good sir.
This age of Piracy is a fascinating one, as is the late baroque era, which few discuss at any length, the period from 1690-1730, are often glanced over by history, which is a shame, as it is a fascinating period of politics and culture.
You should do a show on Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart who was one of the longest reigning pirates of the Golden Age and seized over 100 ships. He was also a very interesting character as on the one hand he was a incredibly cruel towards those who wronged him but also forced his crew to attend mass every Sunday. For anyone interested in reading more about him, check out The Pirate Word: A History of the Most Notorious Sea-Robbers by Angus Konstam.
I got to live like a pirate for four summers. I was a treasure diver in Sebastian Florida. In 2015, our boat found 305 Spanish gold coins from the 1715 fleet. On the 300th anniversary of the sinking of the ship no less. I would love to see an episode on the pirate Henry Jennings. He was pillaging shipwrecks on the Florida coast and Bahamas in the 1700s.
@@manleynelson9419 my husband's parents built a cabin on Ocracoke in the 70s. It's still there and they kept the name Robertson Cottage. My hubby claims responsibility for the baseball diamond.
Colin puts out the content I'm most interested in. Miss the fly collars. Cheers to you Mr. Heaton. The swamp fox and my 5x grandpa William Ranger Davidson are deserving . Just throwing it out there for content fodder. Some of the Davidson family moved west on the Oregon Trail in the late 1850's and were founders of the little town of Woodland, Washington. Just north of Fort Vancouver. John McLaughlin, the "Founder Of Oregon" sold my grandfather x3 a box of apples to cure the scurvy his family had acquired coming over. Mr. McLaughlin is directly responsible for my being alive today. He is also worthy of an episode. His history is almost completely forgotten. Thanks for keeping history alive guys.
I’ve always been under the impression he spent 10-15 years terrorizing the Caribbean. Wow! Only two years mostly along the coast of the early colonies. This should be more well known American history.
My dad use to take me to Beaufort. Some alumni thing at Duke Marine lab. He would absolutely enjoy your channel. This video cleared up so much I heard about Blackbeard and his haunts in N.C.
As a LONDONER 🇬🇧💯 I think you hit it plainly on the head, with IT WAS THE END OF A TRUE DEMOCRACY ⚖️🙏🥇 Thank you... It was said before he left for sea, in towns you may find lighting, but the many unlite roads. This is where he would lite his fuses in his hair and whith them mad eyes in the middle of nowhere. You would give him all you had💪💯🇬🇧🥇
Bonnet had been shot three or four times in the scuffle that damaged the revenge. Blackbeard’s control of the ship was less of a “please control us” and more of a “you can use my ship while I recover” which is why bonnet was always in gown. He was hurt badly.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNELfrom what I gathered from different novels and accounts Bonnet had mental issues and depression that made him desire a pirates life though he was just unable to become a fear mongering monster like Blackbeard
No way!! I didn’t know you lived in Beaufort!!! That’s wild! I used to live there, off Live Oak Street and Ocean Street. I LOVED that little town! Holds a special place in my heart even from childhood as my grandparents lived next door in Morehead City. Indeed, my grandmother still resides there. We used to walk the “boardwalk” and get ice cream from the General Store as children. Now that I am older, the saganaki from Beaufort Grocery has become my favorite staple of the town and I absolutely have to get it every time I visit the area. Love me some “Beau Gro”!
Great Video Colin! I love hearing these types of stories and imagining what exactly may have happened. The mind is the best movie theater. This is why books are so amazing.
I’m from coastal va. Live on the border with the OBX. I was a kiddo when they found the ship. It was a big deal. Every summer when we would go down to the RV we had parked out there there was more Blackbeard stuff. They opened a museum in hatteras village near the marina.
17:31 correction, he stayed at Ocracoke inlet because, in the 1700's, Ocracoke inlet was the only inlet between Beaufort inlet and the Chesapeake Bay. The other two inlets on the Outer Banks (Oregon and Hatteras) did not exist until they were created by a hurricane in the 1850's. Also, Governor Eden granted Thatch the Kings pardon, and Thatch began running the break-bulk cargo port at Ocracoke. At the time, Ocracoke inlet was handling more cargo than Norfolk Virginia, due to lower taxes in North Carolina. The murder of Blackbeard, after he had been pardoned and was engaged in legitimate business, was an act of industrial espionage.
We just moved Beaufort, NC by the Neuse River. Love this area. Been to the museum you mentioned as well. Anyways, I enjoyed this and many other of your videos.
I've been to that museum on a school trip when I was a kid, this is long before they discovered Teach's ship. During Trump's administration he designated Wilmington, NC as a historic WWII town with the USS North Carolina being stationed there and an old Dupont plant that manufactured Marine Aviation fuel that was actually fired upon by U-Boats. Can you please do an episode on Wilmington, NC pertaining to its role during WWII?
Great video. It would be interesting to breakdown how pirates like Blackbeard inspired the writers of tales of pirates. Particularly 20th century books and movies.
Love your new look. Go easy on the eyes with those transitions, though. A little too strobey. But as always, a great deep dive. I also like the semi-tutorial format. Builds and then satisfies curiosity. Nice touch, Devil Dog.
Just an error. In fact, an original "pilot" was a helmsman, steering the ship, who was also the navigator. Most of the pirate captains started out that way.
@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Quality content. I like to think that if I study enough history, I might be able to divine the future a little. Again, thank you very much.
Pirates were always happy to welcome newcomers on board since their numbers were continually being depleted by scurvy and various tropical diseases, not necessarily because of their benevolence..
Thank you once again for telling us another interesting tale from history . I did like the comment about being the first democracy , very interesting and who would have thought it .
I don't remember if this was mentioned, but it is believed that Black Beard knew those two ships would run a ground, he was trying to "downsize" his operation, because it was becoming harder to pay his men. If I remember correctly.
Now the Pirates thrive on attacking commuters on highways nationwide. Here in Alaska we call them the Anchorage Police Department. Argggh me Matey's!!!
Bristol is a City and a County in its own right. Blackbeard was born opposite the Welsh Back on Bristol Harbour. Not in Gloucestershire. The house he was born in is still there to this day
Just to imagine all on its own that someone had the thinking & perspective to incorporate smoking rope ends intertwined with their beard, as an obvious means for psychological purposes (assuming that it was an original idea) says a great deal about his profile & perhaps even an inherent partiality & personality traits akin to roles of leadership, in my humble opinion.
I am pleased to see this information. I know that a German of some wealth (land owner or minor nobility) was one of the First Founders of New Berne, NC with DeGraffenried's colony in 1709. The colony was established under the sponsorship of Queen Anne who was troubled by the vast number of Rhine valley Protestants who fled the perils of Catholic domination in southern Germany, eastern France, and northeastern Switzerland after the Edict of Fontainebleau and during the War of the Spanish Succession. Families of refugees had escaped to the Netherlands where there was a strong Protestant presence but the fact that the Netherlands were officially a part of the Spanish empire meant that they could not support a large or visible immigrant community. So, many went off to England seeking refuge. They were given it, magnanimously at first, but as numbers began to increase, the ability of the English economy to support them grew overstretched and frail. It is not known when Michael Guiessibel left the Rhine Palatinates with his family but they were among the first settlers of DeGraffenried's colony. Accompanying Michael Guiessibel and his wife Elizabeth were their son (also named Michael) and his wife, Margaret Tetche. Also with them were Margaret's brother, Daniel Tetche and his wife Anne Guiessibel Tetche, along with their son, Daniel Edward Tetche (born about 1707 or 1708. The baby would, of course, have been the elder Michael Guiessibel's grandson). Also with them were several other Guiessibel siblings (not known to be married so perhaps younger than Michael and Anne) and Daniel's brother, Edward Tetche. The New Berne colony got off to a very bad start. Their ship set off in the autumn and north Atlantic storms delayed their progress. When they neared the coast of America, they were attacked by pirates and the ship was looted of cargo, equipment and farming necessities for the colonists, and their personal possessions. Then when they arrived, they found out that the supplies, food, tools, and other items promised them by the Queen's commissioners. Many of them promised that they'd get revenge on Queen Anne for these slights. Daniel Edward Tetche moved inland to Duplin county and lived into the time the US Constitution was adopted. He married Ann Wells, daughter of a Virginia colonist who had moved to North Carolina, and was captain of a local militia force that attempted to harass Cornwallis's forces that were stationed near Wilmington. They had nearly a dozen children and their descendants, known under the Anglicized name "Teachey" are spread across eastern North Carolina, the US, and the world. Little is known of Edward Tetche. Some letters seem to refer to him as a blacksmith and a towering man of great strength and a tendency toward anger. The mother of Daniel and Edward Tetche had a French last name which was not uncommon in the Rhine valley of Germany as great numbers of French Huguenots had escaped from France in the last decades of the 1600s. Blackbeard the pirate was reported to have confronted the governor of the island of Martinique and negotiated in perfect French an agreement to spare the people of Martinique and their possessions if the island would offer him occasional refuge. Would an ordinary sailor from southwestern England have this capacity? Blackbeard is recorded to have visited an official of the Colonial government in Bath to ask for a pardon and some researchers have attributed a marriage to him with a woman from Bath. But Blackbeard is also recorded as using for protection the sounds and rivers behind the Outer Banks near Okracoke Island and Core Banks; these are the closest inlets to the sea from New Berne. Edward Tetche disappears from the Carolina colonial records about 1718. Could a blacksmith from Germany, angry at the English authorities for the treatment of his family and fellow colonists, have set off on a piratical trail to take the wealth and goods that the colony had been denied? (Daniel Edward Teachey is my 5-times great grandfather. His farm and burial place is two miles from my childhood home and within a mile of my high school.)
Wow!!! I think you may be onto something! My paternal grandmother's family goes way back to the colonial days in Eastern NC. My grandmother who was born in the first decade of the 20th century and grew up in Wallace, NC always said that the Teacheys of Duplin County were related to Blackbeard. I always sorta wondered how Blackbeard had a bunch of relatives in Duplin County, NC if he was a sailor from Bristol, England and figured granny probably didn't know what she was talking about. After reading what you wrote I think my old granny may have known way more than I thought, and after going to findagrave and looking into my family tree I might have figured out why! According to findagrave my 5-times great grandfather, John Sloan of Duplin County, father of my 4-times great grandfather David Sloan (born 1768) was married to a Nancy Wells. I wonder if Nancy Wells and Ann Wells were possibly sisters? If so that would make my 5-times great grandfather John Sloan and your 5-times great grandfather Daniel Edward Teachey brothers-in-law so it would make sense that the Teachey family's relationship to the pirate Blackbeard would probably have been known about and passed down through generations of family lore to my granny who was born nearly 200 years after Blackbeard's reign of terror along the NC coast.
@@trevorn9381 Nice to meet you cousin. Ann Wells (who married Daniel Edward Teachey) was the daughter of Jacob Wells who moved his family down to Duplin county in the first 1/3 of the 1700s. Ann had a number of siblings and the Wells family is very large in Duplin (and surrounding areas of Pender and Sampson counties). I'm guessing that a woman who married a man born 1768 would have been about two generations younger than Ann Wells Teachey (i.e. Ann and Daniel E. Teachey's great-niece). But same family, for sure. (The Wells family is a little hard to trace. There was a William Willson in colonial Virginia, who had a son named William Wills, and Jacob Wells was William Wills's son. Names got put through the Cuisinart a good bit in those days.)
@@brucebear1 Sorry, what I wrote was somewhat nebulous. Nancy Wells Sloan was the wife of John Sloan and would have been the mother of David Sloan who was born in 1768 but still probably a generation younger than Ann. I do not know when John Sloan or Nancy Wells were born and don't know where they are buried. David (born 1768) as well as his son also named David (born 1797) and his son, my great-great grandfather William Herring Sloan (who was the first postmaster of Chinquapin) are all buried the Sloan family cemetery on Durwood Evans Road and the graves are marked, or at least they were last time I stopped by there on my way to Topsail Beach a few years back. My family lost the family farm during the Great Depression and moved to Virginia where they found work in industry during WWII. My great-grandfather Sloan had 14 brothers and sisters so I am sure I am probably kin to half the people in Duplin County.
My son and I went rock hounding this last weekend. I couldn't help but look at the road cuts. I wondered if I would recognize anything you've talked about. I was hoping for something with a dike but didn't see one. I think I saw something like a strike though.
There were several privateers/pirates that went by the name of Blackbeard. A maternal ancestor of ours was one of them. His name may have been True, Warry, Turpin, or Warry-Turpin.
The funny part for me is the Marine who claimed he killed Blackbeard like it was a duel but he was wounded then was struck from behind Like that is something to boast about "I killed a wounded & outnumbered pirate from behind with the aid of my Marines" 😤: Maynard
Blackbeard paced the creaking deck "Crow cock crow" Blackbeard was greatly vexed From up behind they cut him down A cutlas chopped his head His corps was seen then swimming nine times around the deck Some men say it was a shark Those men all are teched
The first great American. The Queen Anne's Revenge wreck is five miles from my front yard, blows my mind it wasn't discovered till 1996. It's right in a high trafficked area where not a lot of fishing takes place with boaters just trying get out of Beaufort inlet but even in 96, there were fish finders galore going over the wreck. That thing must have buried pretty good from almost 300 years of hurricanes. It's really not even what you could call out to sea. It's barely a par 5 from the Fort Macon rock jetty.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Thank you for correcting my wrong think wise sage. Simón Bolívar also loved being part of the Spanish Empire. Sorry to take your valuable time when you have better things to do like buying a clean COVID mask or something.
i highly recommend to read the treasure island to see how pirates operated. Also Jules Vern have the 15year old captain and the Captains' Grants children that have to do with pirates. Thank you for the video
Thatch was a genius at "presence". His appearance inspired equal parts fear and awe. Careful use of that fear made him one of the smartest pirates of his era. His approach was savvy, ruthless and consistent. It is no wonder his exploits are used and romanticized so frequently in stories. The coolest thing is that the reality was almost as outlandish as the legends. Great historical presentation Colin, thank you!
Yo Colin, according to Oral Family History Thatch(later Teach who took a Cree Woman as a wife) who's Descendents married into the Mt. Currie tribe & are known as Leach to where a flash in the pan musician named George made a name for himself.A John(Jack) Sparrow who also started as a Privateer, what is rarely reported in history is these men were Pirating "Legally" for the Crown of England in recognized Colonies as well as their local waters.Sparrow took a wife from Musqueum village at the mouth of the Fraser River,they are my relatives.How is it that they arrived on the North Northwest Coast?!! There was a Suez Canal long before Colonization.The Chinese & Vikings also visited upon us long before Vancouver & Naverez.
"IF BUYING ISN'T OWNING THEN PIRACY ISN'T STEALING!" ~ Louis Rossman
Love him he’s hilarious
History forgotten continues to echo itself.
@@jeltoninc.8542the history that is forgotten continues to echo itself sufficiencys eye . .
He loved the coast of North Carolina. There always new finds related to him around the outer banks.
Yes, he liked to hide in Pamlico Sound
I love the O.B.X. especially Emerald isle.
The coast of North Carolina loves him too - you always see his flag on people's cars and flying at their beach houses.
I taught school in Florida and all my kids learned about Gasparilla, Black Caesar, Jean la Fitte and Port Royal, pirates, freebooters, buccaneers, Key West, Spanish-English political antics.. great stories
I have been listening to forgotten history for almost two years and I was today's years old when I found out me and Colin live in the same small town.
@@1tugand3strokes24 That's awesome 😎
Well done ! I for years (1989-1998) did costal maritime reenactment aka Piracy . And on several accounts was asked to portray Teach ( I was not in any way tall enough 🤨) ! Based in south east Florida, this was the best reanactment for 16-18th century we could do for the local history ! I do miss those days !
Dayumn! I think you hit the grand slam with this one my man! Definitely knocked another one out the park. Thanks for another rousing recount of another tale in forgotten history good sir.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This age of Piracy is a fascinating one, as is the late baroque era, which few discuss at any length, the period from 1690-1730, are often glanced over by history, which is a shame, as it is a fascinating period of politics and culture.
My wife grew up near Elizabeth City, NC on the Albemarle sound. There are many Blackbeard tales that have been handed down over the generations
You should do a show on Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart who was one of the longest reigning pirates of the Golden Age and seized over 100 ships. He was also a very interesting character as on the one hand he was a incredibly cruel towards those who wronged him but also forced his crew to attend mass every Sunday. For anyone interested in reading more about him, check out The Pirate Word: A History of the Most Notorious Sea-Robbers by Angus Konstam.
We will see how Black beard does, but Roberts is already on the radar. Thanks for watching
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNELI’d like to hear about Black Bart or any other famous pirates of history
Mass?
@@MarkEvans-wx3sg as in going to church.
sure, even though I have read and heard many accounts of Blackbeard, I learned so much more from yours. thank you for being my favorite channel!
Great to hear!
Blackbeard built a castle on St Thomas USVI. Its on a hill overlooking the harbour.
fantastic story - I've never heard such a comprehensive account
well done
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m waiting for a historically accurate pirate movie to come out one day.
Until then, this is the next best thing
I am currently working as a producer/consultant with a well known director, actor and producer on a script for one coming in the future.
Poetic license usually ruins based on a true story.
I got to live like a pirate for four summers. I was a treasure diver in Sebastian Florida. In 2015, our boat found 305 Spanish gold coins from the 1715 fleet. On the 300th anniversary of the sinking of the ship no less. I would love to see an episode on the pirate Henry Jennings. He was pillaging shipwrecks on the Florida coast and Bahamas in the 1700s.
What the fuck ? I lived in Sebastian for like 5 years and never knew that history. Granted, i was a kid.
Ocracoke Island is one of my most favorite places. I absolutely love it there.
Ours too!
I loved it in 1965 when no one had discovered it.
@@manleynelson9419 my husband's parents built a cabin on Ocracoke in the 70s. It's still there and they kept the name Robertson Cottage. My hubby claims responsibility for the baseball diamond.
One of the greatest experiences of my life was crawling over the sand dunes and seeing an empty beach and the Atlantic.
I live the O.B.X. Especially Emerald Isle.
Colin puts out the content I'm most interested in.
Miss the fly collars. Cheers to you Mr. Heaton.
The swamp fox and my 5x grandpa William Ranger Davidson are deserving . Just throwing it out there for content fodder.
Some of the Davidson family moved west on the Oregon Trail in the late 1850's and were founders of the little town of Woodland, Washington. Just north of Fort Vancouver. John McLaughlin, the "Founder Of Oregon" sold my grandfather x3 a box of apples to cure the scurvy his family had acquired coming over.
Mr. McLaughlin is directly responsible for my being alive today.
He is also worthy of an episode. His history is almost completely forgotten.
Thanks for keeping history alive guys.
I'm old. I don't know how to make videos. I'm impressed with what you fellas are doing over there.
Thanks for the suggestion
Thanks for watching
I love these stories and history ❤ thank you
I’ve always been under the impression he spent 10-15 years terrorizing the Caribbean. Wow! Only two years mostly along the coast of the early colonies. This should be more well known American history.
Sea level, we get there together or not at all. . .
He is well known in NC like Robin Hood
American history, he was English.
My dad use to take me to Beaufort. Some alumni thing at Duke Marine lab. He would absolutely enjoy your channel. This video cleared up so much I heard about Blackbeard and his haunts in N.C.
Fascinating video, Prof Heaton! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Definitely my favorite episode! Thx
Knowing my ancestors (by name at that time) makes it even more wild. Thanks
Thanks for watching
Pleased to meet you cousin.
If you are related to him through all your fathers, you have the same Y chromosome as he did
Fathers father, his dad’s dad etc etc.
Same Y as our dad(if not identical nearly identical) but only passes from father to son.
Another excellent installation of forgotten history.....thanks for the great content!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank You Colin.
Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
Thanks.
Edward Teach - a short, but storied career, the Caribbean's answer to Billy the Kid.
As a LONDONER 🇬🇧💯 I think you hit it plainly on the head, with IT WAS THE END OF A TRUE DEMOCRACY ⚖️🙏🥇
Thank you...
It was said before he left for sea, in towns you may find lighting, but the many unlite roads. This is where he would lite his fuses in his hair and whith them mad eyes in the middle of nowhere. You would give him all you had💪💯🇬🇧🥇
I love the new intro.
It is clear that you put a lot of work into everything that you do.
I appreciate that!
The most amazing thing to me is I was just thinking about this..... yesterday
Me too lol because I went to pirates cove miniature golf which is themed around Blackbeard.
Synchronicity
Bonnet had been shot three or four times in the scuffle that damaged the revenge. Blackbeard’s control of the ship was less of a “please control us” and more of a “you can use my ship while I recover” which is why bonnet was always in gown. He was hurt badly.
Apparently his crew still thought they needed better leadership
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“It’s in the charter we all signed or made our marks to, G.d. and blast yer eyes fer a doe faced, sloe eyed, pxd whrsn!”
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNELfrom what I gathered from different novels and accounts Bonnet had mental issues and depression that made him desire a pirates life though he was just unable to become a fear mongering monster like Blackbeard
This was definitely another informative video.
Well worth the watch. Gracias - again.
Glad you enjoyed it
This was awesome - thank you and Semper Fi Marine!
Fantastic video on Blackbeard. I enjoy hearing about famous pirates.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Now every time I roll around Beaufort, I will keep my eye out for one of my favorite historians! Another great video, sir.
Awesome! Thank you!
No way!! I didn’t know you lived in Beaufort!!! That’s wild! I used to live there, off Live Oak Street and Ocean Street. I LOVED that little town! Holds a special place in my heart even from childhood as my grandparents lived next door in Morehead City. Indeed, my grandmother still resides there. We used to walk the “boardwalk” and get ice cream from the General Store as children. Now that I am older, the saganaki from Beaufort Grocery has become my favorite staple of the town and I absolutely have to get it every time I visit the area. Love me some “Beau Gro”!
I live about 8 miles from Bath and it is worth a visit. The visitor center has info on Black Beard and tours of historic homes and the first church.
Great Video Colin! I love hearing these types of stories and imagining what exactly may have happened. The mind is the best movie theater. This is why books are so amazing.
Couldn't agree more!
Well done, thank you.
Our pleasure!
I just vacationed in the Beaufort/Morehead City/ Atlantic Beach area. There is a lot of history in that area.
Israel Hands was the name of one of the pirates in Robert Louis Stephenson's novel, Treasure Island.
Stevenson wove both act and fiction into his story.
First off Semper Fi than you for your service. Great review thanks for sharing
Semper Fi!
Excellent presentation, thank you.
Glad to know your in NC! Beaufort is nice place but a lot more overcrowded now than it was 30-40 years ago.
Especially during tourist season
great work thank you!
Great video on Black Beard
I’m from coastal va. Live on the border with the OBX. I was a kiddo when they found the ship. It was a big deal. Every summer when we would go down to the RV we had parked out there there was more Blackbeard stuff. They opened a museum in hatteras village near the marina.
17:31 correction, he stayed at Ocracoke inlet because, in the 1700's, Ocracoke inlet was the only inlet between Beaufort inlet and the Chesapeake Bay. The other two inlets on the Outer Banks (Oregon and Hatteras) did not exist until they were created by a hurricane in the 1850's.
Also, Governor Eden granted Thatch the Kings pardon, and Thatch began running the break-bulk cargo port at Ocracoke. At the time, Ocracoke inlet was handling more cargo than Norfolk Virginia, due to lower taxes in North Carolina. The murder of Blackbeard, after he had been pardoned and was engaged in legitimate business, was an act of industrial espionage.
We just moved Beaufort, NC by the Neuse River. Love this area. Been to the museum you mentioned as well. Anyways, I enjoyed this and many other of your videos.
Welcome to NC! And thank you kindly
While Blackbeard was an evil dude, you have to admit his antics were genius marketing.
Not as formidable as Corn Pop, though.
😂😂😂@@SpaceCowboy-u7j
Sea salvagers?
When I first saw this video it was behind a paywall. Thank you for making it available to everyone.
Our pleasure!
We vacation on Emerald Isle almost every year (timeshare) and my favorite place is Beaufort.
I've been to that museum on a school trip when I was a kid, this is long before they discovered Teach's ship.
During Trump's administration he designated Wilmington, NC as a historic WWII town with the USS North Carolina being stationed there and an old Dupont plant that manufactured Marine Aviation fuel that was actually fired upon by U-Boats. Can you please do an episode on Wilmington, NC pertaining to its role during WWII?
Possibly, Wilmington was where I lived for several years. It was also a Liberty ship building location and had a large POW camp for Italian POWs.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL this is something I didn't know about Wilmington and I lived there for 4 years while going to college at UNCW
Up for it, let's check it out.
Thank you for this!!
You're so welcome!
Great video. It would be interesting to breakdown how pirates like Blackbeard inspired the writers of tales of pirates. Particularly 20th century books and movies.
I have always enjoyed the museum.
There must’ve been something special about it for so many of them to refuse to give it up, even at the cost of their life.
Similar to modern gangs
Love your new look. Go easy on the eyes with those transitions, though. A little too strobey. But as always, a great deep dive. I also like the semi-tutorial format. Builds and then satisfies curiosity. Nice touch, Devil Dog.
Thanks for the tips!
I'm not sure why but several times instead of calling them pirates you call them pilots. This occurs multiple times.
Just an error. In fact, an original "pilot" was a helmsman, steering the ship, who was also the navigator. Most of the pirate captains started out that way.
Thanks for great history truth.
Outstanding as usual.
*thanks for the video bro*
It's my pleasure
Thank you again.
Our pleasure!
Perfect timing, I just finished Black Sails!
Thanks colin
I love this channel
Thank you! Sir!
You are welcome!
@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Quality content. I like to think that if I study enough history, I might be able to divine the future a little. Again, thank you very much.
Pirates were always happy to welcome newcomers on board since their numbers were continually being depleted by scurvy and various tropical diseases, not necessarily because of their benevolence..
That’s good!
Thank you once again for telling us another interesting tale from history . I did like the comment about being the first democracy , very interesting and who would have thought it .
Thanks!
Thanks for your multiple contributions. We really appreciate it
Great video! Are you going to do an episode based on General Oliver prince Smith and the battle of the Chosin reservoir? He saved 15,000 Marines.
Colin and the people he's with always make great videos on history. I think they try to outdo themselves with each new one.
Possibly, we already have one on Chosin
Thank you.
You're welcome!
A man that was a priate, for two years and took forty ships is a man worth remembering
I live in Bath N.C. it has a great history and is a beautiful town. 😊
There's a little Black Beard in all of us
I hope so!!
I don't remember if this was mentioned, but it is believed that Black Beard knew those two ships would run a ground, he was trying to "downsize" his operation, because it was becoming harder to pay his men.
If I remember correctly.
Possibly, but careening to scrape off barnacles to increase speed makes more sense.
I prefer Wild West stories, but stories about pirates are also very interesting.
We have more western stories coming
Great stuff.
Now the Pirates thrive on attacking commuters on highways nationwide.
Here in Alaska we call them the Anchorage Police Department.
Argggh me Matey's!!!
Thanks for watching
Thank you for teaching me the truth about Blackbeard.
Bristol is a City and a County in its own right. Blackbeard was born opposite the Welsh Back on Bristol Harbour. Not in Gloucestershire.
The house he was born in is still there to this day
A very groovy documentary.
Thanks for watching
Blackbeard a fellow Bristolian 🙌
Just to imagine all on its own that someone had the thinking & perspective to incorporate smoking rope ends intertwined with their beard, as an obvious means for psychological purposes (assuming that it was an original idea) says a great deal about his profile & perhaps even an inherent partiality & personality traits akin to roles of leadership, in my humble opinion.
Like to see one on Captain Morgan.
I'm seeing him this afternoon...
I am pleased to see this information. I know that a German of some wealth (land owner or minor nobility) was one of the First Founders of New Berne, NC with DeGraffenried's colony in 1709. The colony was established under the sponsorship of Queen Anne who was troubled by the vast number of Rhine valley Protestants who fled the perils of Catholic domination in southern Germany, eastern France, and northeastern Switzerland after the Edict of Fontainebleau and during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Families of refugees had escaped to the Netherlands where there was a strong Protestant presence but the fact that the Netherlands were officially a part of the Spanish empire meant that they could not support a large or visible immigrant community. So, many went off to England seeking refuge. They were given it, magnanimously at first, but as numbers began to increase, the ability of the English economy to support them grew overstretched and frail.
It is not known when Michael Guiessibel left the Rhine Palatinates with his family but they were among the first settlers of DeGraffenried's colony. Accompanying Michael Guiessibel and his wife Elizabeth were their son (also named Michael) and his wife, Margaret Tetche. Also with them were Margaret's brother, Daniel Tetche and his wife Anne Guiessibel Tetche, along with their son, Daniel Edward Tetche (born about 1707 or 1708. The baby would, of course, have been the elder Michael Guiessibel's grandson). Also with them were several other Guiessibel siblings (not known to be married so perhaps younger than Michael and Anne) and Daniel's brother, Edward Tetche.
The New Berne colony got off to a very bad start. Their ship set off in the autumn and north Atlantic storms delayed their progress. When they neared the coast of America, they were attacked by pirates and the ship was looted of cargo, equipment and farming necessities for the colonists, and their personal possessions. Then when they arrived, they found out that the supplies, food, tools, and other items promised them by the Queen's commissioners. Many of them promised that they'd get revenge on Queen Anne for these slights.
Daniel Edward Tetche moved inland to Duplin county and lived into the time the US Constitution was adopted. He married Ann Wells, daughter of a Virginia colonist who had moved to North Carolina, and was captain of a local militia force that attempted to harass Cornwallis's forces that were stationed near Wilmington. They had nearly a dozen children and their descendants, known under the Anglicized name "Teachey" are spread across eastern North Carolina, the US, and the world.
Little is known of Edward Tetche. Some letters seem to refer to him as a blacksmith and a towering man of great strength and a tendency toward anger. The mother of Daniel and Edward Tetche had a French last name which was not uncommon in the Rhine valley of Germany as great numbers of French Huguenots had escaped from France in the last decades of the 1600s. Blackbeard the pirate was reported to have confronted the governor of the island of Martinique and negotiated in perfect French an agreement to spare the people of Martinique and their possessions if the island would offer him occasional refuge. Would an ordinary sailor from southwestern England have this capacity? Blackbeard is recorded to have visited an official of the Colonial government in Bath to ask for a pardon and some researchers have attributed a marriage to him with a woman from Bath. But Blackbeard is also recorded as using for protection the sounds and rivers behind the Outer Banks near Okracoke Island and Core Banks; these are the closest inlets to the sea from New Berne.
Edward Tetche disappears from the Carolina colonial records about 1718. Could a blacksmith from Germany, angry at the English authorities for the treatment of his family and fellow colonists, have set off on a piratical trail to take the wealth and goods that the colony had been denied?
(Daniel Edward Teachey is my 5-times great grandfather. His farm and burial place is two miles from my childhood home and within a mile of my high school.)
Wow!!! I think you may be onto something! My paternal grandmother's family goes way back to the colonial days in Eastern NC. My grandmother who was born in the first decade of the 20th century and grew up in Wallace, NC always said that the Teacheys of Duplin County were related to Blackbeard. I always sorta wondered how Blackbeard had a bunch of relatives in Duplin County, NC if he was a sailor from Bristol, England and figured granny probably didn't know what she was talking about. After reading what you wrote I think my old granny may have known way more than I thought, and after going to findagrave and looking into my family tree I might have figured out why!
According to findagrave my 5-times great grandfather, John Sloan of Duplin County, father of my 4-times great grandfather David Sloan (born 1768) was married to a Nancy Wells. I wonder if Nancy Wells and Ann Wells were possibly sisters? If so that would make my 5-times great grandfather John Sloan and your 5-times great grandfather Daniel Edward Teachey brothers-in-law so it would make sense that the Teachey family's relationship to the pirate Blackbeard would probably have been known about and passed down through generations of family lore to my granny who was born nearly 200 years after Blackbeard's reign of terror along the NC coast.
@@trevorn9381 Nice to meet you cousin. Ann Wells (who married Daniel Edward Teachey) was the daughter of Jacob Wells who moved his family down to Duplin county in the first 1/3 of the 1700s. Ann had a number of siblings and the Wells family is very large in Duplin (and surrounding areas of Pender and Sampson counties). I'm guessing that a woman who married a man born 1768 would have been about two generations younger than Ann Wells Teachey (i.e. Ann and Daniel E. Teachey's great-niece).
But same family, for sure.
(The Wells family is a little hard to trace. There was a William Willson in colonial Virginia, who had a son named William Wills, and Jacob Wells was William Wills's son. Names got put through the Cuisinart a good bit in those days.)
@@brucebear1 Sorry, what I wrote was somewhat nebulous. Nancy Wells Sloan was the wife of John Sloan and would have been the mother of David Sloan who was born in 1768 but still probably a generation younger than Ann.
I do not know when John Sloan or Nancy Wells were born and don't know where they are buried. David (born 1768) as well as his son also named David (born 1797) and his son, my great-great grandfather William Herring Sloan (who was the first postmaster of Chinquapin) are all buried the Sloan family cemetery on Durwood Evans Road and the graves are marked, or at least they were last time I stopped by there on my way to Topsail Beach a few years back. My family lost the family farm during the Great Depression and moved to Virginia where they found work in industry during WWII. My great-grandfather Sloan had 14 brothers and sisters so I am sure I am probably kin to half the people in Duplin County.
Yaaaarh!
You live in Beaufort? Nice. ❤ that town. We were stationed at Cherry Point when the QAR was found.
Nearby in Gloucester
My son and I went rock hounding this last weekend. I couldn't help but look at the road cuts. I wondered if I would recognize anything you've talked about. I was hoping for something with a dike but didn't see one. I think I saw something like a strike though.
*is that a glass?* 9:13 I always thought it was one of those sanded-filled glass things that measure a specific amount of time
Yes, for toasting a drink to the devil
There were several privateers/pirates that went by the name of Blackbeard. A maternal ancestor of ours was one of them. His name may have been True, Warry, Turpin, or Warry-Turpin.
The funny part for me is the Marine who claimed he killed Blackbeard like it was a duel but he was wounded then was struck from behind
Like that is something to boast about "I killed a wounded & outnumbered pirate from behind with the aid of my Marines" 😤: Maynard
Hearing all of this I expected he was running amok for 10 years. I can’t believe he did all that in only 2.
Blackbeard paced the creaking deck
"Crow cock crow"
Blackbeard was greatly vexed
From up behind they cut him down
A cutlas chopped his head
His corps was seen then swimming
nine times around the deck
Some men say it was a shark
Those men all are teched
Blackbeard, a real character!
The first great American. The Queen Anne's Revenge wreck is five miles from my front yard, blows my mind it wasn't discovered till 1996. It's right in a high trafficked area where not a lot of fishing takes place with boaters just trying get out of Beaufort inlet but even in 96, there were fish finders galore going over the wreck. That thing must have buried pretty good from almost 300 years of hurricanes. It's really not even what you could call out to sea. It's barely a par 5 from the Fort Macon rock jetty.
I am in Gloucester, I agree
How can he be American if he was English?
@@lyndoncmp5751 Thank you for correcting my wrong think wise sage. Simón Bolívar also loved being part of the Spanish Empire. Sorry to take your valuable time when you have better things to do like buying a clean COVID mask or something.
@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Bristol is not in Gloucestershire. It's a City and County in its own right
@@MrBoognet What the feck are you babbling about?
Good video
great choice
i highly recommend to read the treasure island to see how pirates operated. Also Jules Vern have the 15year old captain and the Captains' Grants children that have to do with pirates. Thank you for the video