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[_] Blackjack Slim !!83t3HfVP4qd 07/31/15(Fri)05:39:04 No.2862116
This song is about a real Pirate Ship, and Kingston Bay is the bottom of Cape Cod's bay right
outside of Boston.
A lord's bastard son named Tom Cutter held the entire region hostage in a way, the local traders
and merchants all paid him and his crew "taxes" for safe passage in and out of the bay.
He did this quite daringly, because it was the waning era of piracy, few, if any, could stand
against the might of the English/French/Spanish/Dutch Armadas
First the British put a bounty on Cutter for illegal taxation. Cutter sent back to the crown a
bounty hunter's head in a box with the official papers nailed to it, along with a note explaining
the legitimacy of his office.
Then the Dutch put a bounty up for him stealing and selling slaves meant for Boston. Cutter sent
the figurehead of a Dutch mercenary ship back to their crown, also with a note explaining the
legitimacy of his office.
Here is where the legend comes alive. Boston and other provinces in the area grew desperate, so
they tacked up signs in the bay warning merchants and traders to turn back, and head further
north to sell their wares.
Cutter found out about this and was elated, he immediately adopted the signs as a token of
fortune and put even more up.
Finally the British were forced to acknowledge the embarrassing ordeal, and take military action
against him, being under pressure from the Dutch, French, Spanish, and not to mention some VERY
wealthy trading nobles.
They sent out a detail of five full sized warships, an overwhelming display of might.
Thinking no mere pirate could possibly ever defeat a detail as this, they sailed into the bay at
the dead of night, hoping to catch the Devil's Reach off guard.
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Blackjack Slim !!83t3HfVP4qd 07/31/15(Fri)05:41:02 No.2862118
Instead it is they who were ambushed and somehow, Cutter and his merciless band won the day. and
as the song goes, the ship was shattered but still floating, he and his crew sailed it onto the
nearest beach, nailed yet another sign to it, warning those that dared, that this was the Devil's
Reach's territory.
Along with the sign was another note written by Cutter explaining that his days of Piracy were
over, and that if he was perused, he would return with a terrible vengeance.
None ever did, he disappeared from the annals of history there. The most likely I've read is he
retired to the dutch controlled islands as a minor lord.
It's not easy to obtain this information, the internet barely has anything on this man, because
the British afterwards made several laws making it illegal to discuss/write about famous
privateers at that time. Rumors are the laws started because of Cutter himself and the Brits
didn't want another Blackbeard sailing up and down colonial America.
But the folk tales held, that's how I heard of it, in a dive-bar right next to the bay itself.
Where did I find this info you ask? Boston Library has several old pieces about Cutter and his
crew, and I had a kindly older gentleman from the Royal Naval Academy fax me some official
documents about Cutter, these proved in my mind he was very real, and he was greatly feared.
Like the song says, he was practically on the level of Morgan or Blackbeard when it came to
telling world powers to stick it where the sun doesn't shine."
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)07:06:59 No.2862178
>>2862118
Do you not have anything better to do with your time?
>> [_] Blackjack Slim !!83t3HfVP4qd 07/31/15(Fri)07:08:25 No.2862179
>>2862178
It was actually my vacation time when I dug it all up lel
or are you talking about me posting this?
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)07:44:10 No.2862193
>>2862178
You're on /f/ on 4chan right now.
Do you not have anything better to do with your time?
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)07:57:39 No.2862207
>>2862118
Quite interesting how you dug up that information
And an interesting tale
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)07:59:10 No.2862209
>>2862193
sorry to break the news but I believe yourself to be in the same position
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)08:00:17 No.2862213
>>2862118
Thanks for this story!
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)08:01:20 No.2862214
>>2862209
I am, but i'm not questioning the use of somebody else's time, am I?
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)09:01:35 No.2862240
When ever I hear this music, for some really strange reason I always think of Mexican Cartel
pirates sinking Mexican and central American Naval ships while singing Pirate music in pride.
Then one day the American navy intervenes but then even the American ships were plundered and
raped. In each boat, there would be 10000 pounds of Crack.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)09:07:31 No.2862243
Is this Pirate Friday or something? I like it!
Interesting stuff, OP, pirates are cool as hell.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)09:09:32 No.2862244
nobody cares about you or your shitty music+picture flashes, OP.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/31/15(Fri)11:17:25 No.2862307
>>2862244
>implying
