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[_] Anonymous 04/23/17(Sun)00:52:17 No.

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>> [_] Anonymous 04/23/17(Sun)08:39:44 No.

  Sharing the story of Tom Cutter that one anon wrote once here: (1/2)

  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.

>> [_] Anonymous 04/23/17(Sun)08:40:48 No.

  (2/2)
  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.
  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. I plan to write a book or at least a very lengthy
  document about the man, 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 04/23/17(Sun)10:56:48 No.

  >>3237133
  Thanks, Anon.

>> [_] Anonymous 04/23/17(Sun)12:20:50 No.

  >>3237132
  >>3237133
  Cool stuff, anon