It looks as if the centuries are mixed up, but the listing of a Kidd as a "shipper" doesn't necessarily preclude his being the pirate. According to what I've read, the pirate, Captain Kidd, was originally some sort of business-man who was attempting to take advantage of a hostile situation. He aplied for and received a letter of Marque that allowed him to be a "legal" pirate and take prizes (as long as the prize was a ship from a hostile country). Not really a sailor, he never-the-less bought a ship and set out to make his fortune. On his first voyage he was rather uneventfully captured and hung, and was famous (infamous?) in his own time as a symbol of incompetance. I don't know where the image of his being a blood-thirsty cut-throat ever came from although I suspect Hollywood. Maybe descent from Captain Kidd is not quite as desireable as we thought? Ed