Joy, Very interesting. The link points to a newly published book that my library does not own. I will request it. I don't know whether the book is footnoted or not, but I would be quite interested in knowing the source for the St. Keverne story. I was also interested in this paragraph: "Oliver Cromwell, aware that the corsairs were crippling his South West ports and drastically raising insurance costs for the entire merchant fleet, decreed that any Arab taken in those waters should be taken to Bristol and slowly drowned. He commissioned Robert Blake and William Penn, both of solid Westcountry stock, to clear the corsairs off Lundy Island, which they had made their operations base. They bombarded the makeshift enemy stronghold and those not killed or captured fled back to Barbary." I am related to Blake in a very distant way: 2nd cousin, 12 times removed. Another great-grandchild of Robert Blake's great-grandfather, Humphrey Blake (d. 1558, of Over Stowey, Somerset) settled in Connecticut in the 1630s. And the William Penn mentioned is presumably the father of the William Penn so famous in Delaware Valley history. David Langenberg Newark, Delaware, USA On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Joy Langdon wrote: > Pirates raided the coast of Devon and Cornwall. St Keverne in Cornwall was attacked several times in 1636 (see link). > > http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/West-communities-faced-300-years-terror-Barbary/story-19641515-detail/story.html#axzz2sHcCmrTO > > Joy > > > ________________________________ > From: edbar <edbar@nl.rogers.com> > To: devon@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, 3 February 2014, 17:18 > Subject: Re: [DEV] Devon petition re Pirate activity - Newfoundland fishery > > > Hi David > I understand that the Turkish Pirates did originally operate within the > Mediterranean Sea but certainly later expanded their area of operation into > the Atlantic. Many of the ships fishing in Newfoundland would, at the end > of the season, would take their cargo to Portugal/Spain before returning to > England. Later (c. 1700's) they used larger ships called "Sack Ships" to > take the fish to market and the smaller fishing ships returned to England. > I suspect the the biggest risk to these English ships from the pirates was > when they went to Portugal / Spain to sell their fish as opposed to while > they were fishing in the ocean off the Atlantic coast. I also understand > that the pirates sometimes took some of the captured sailors as part of > their crew, I expect these men would certainly be able to show the pirates > how to navigate the Atlantic. > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: David L. Langenberg > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 12:08 PM > To: devon@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DEV] Devon petition re Pirate activity - Newfoundland fishery > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message