The Pirate History Podcast

We're taking a very broad look at the arrival of Europeans into the North American world from about 1500 to 1630. From Newfoundland to New France, Carolina to New Netherland, and finally New England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the conclusion of the drama on the Chesapeake. Richard Ingle, William Claiborne, Leonard Calvert, and Thomas Cornwaleys all converge in a bout of pillage and violence in 1644 known as The Plundering Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today's drama will set off the first wave of piracy in English North America - a period known as The Plundering Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fighting on the Chesapeake exploded in the 1630s between Virginia and Maryland. The trading post on Kent Island was under siege, but a series of small successes attracted more and more sailors until Kent Island looked very much like a pirate haven. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamestown, Virginia was growing into a viable colony when another party entered the American Colonial world. A formidable Catholic family moved in on the northeast coast of Chesapeake Bay, igniting a fight that would erupt in a scourge of piracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the story of the first act of piracy in the North American English colonies. But really it's a story of rich, greedy, prideful, selfish, downright evil men. And the evil men aren't the pirates. And Christopher Newport, but he's cool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the story of Sir Christopher Newport & John Smith and the colony at Jamestown. Smith is often lauded as the driving force behind the first successful English colony in the New World, but he was little more than a con man. It's a very opinionated episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The colony at Roanoke has long been an integral part of American Mythology, and the mystery of the Lost Colony has fascinated people for centuries. But should it? Today we talk about Roanoke's lost colonists, and the pirates that led to their disappearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time we discussed the colonization of North America. The Nine Years War will introduce the world to pirates from New York, Boston, and Providence that will shape our story. However, North America's story is replete with pirates from the very beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're discussing the outbreak of the Nine Years War. The Huguenot population were pushed into exile, many to England, where they fed into the anti-Catholic, anti-Stuart movement. William III taking the English throne changed the dynamics drastically and what was supposed to be a quick war turned into something much bigger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices