David Marteen

[2] After reaching the Grijalva River, Marteen and the others led their men 50 miles overland and successfully looted Tabasco and Villa Hermosa in a surprise raid.

[1] Modyford wrote, “lately David Marteen, the best man of Tortuga, that has two frigates at sea, had promised to bring in both.”[5] After 1668 he may have briefly joined Robert Searle to raid St. Augustine, though the Charity was busy hauling logwood.

[1] Modyford’s successor Thomas Lynch wrote in 1671 that “there are but three privateers out, one captain Diego, and Yhallahs and Martin.”[6] The following year Charity was captured by John Morris and William Beeston, but by this time Francis Witherborn was in command: Charity had “been formerly Captain David Martyn’s man o’ war.” Marteen was still recorded as living in Port Royal as of 1672.

[7] Local legends in Connecticut hold that Marteen sailed up the Farmington River near Salmon Brook in 1655, setting up a small camp.

[8] When accosted by locals, he and his buccaneers sailed away after burying an enormous amount of treasure they had looted in the Caribbean from the captured Spanish galleon Neptune.