Edward Jordan (pirate)

Born in County Carlow, Ireland, he took part in the Irish rebellions of 1797–1798 but was pardoned and attempted to start a new life as a fisherman in Nova Scotia.

However, his seasonal fishing operation based at Gaspe Bay was unsuccessful, and he racked up large debts.

His body was covered in tar and hanged from chains in an iron cage called a gibbet at Black Rock Beach in Point Pleasant as a warning to others.

His gibbet joined those of four others across the harbour on McNabs Island who had been executed for mutiny aboard the brig HMS Columbine in the same year.

[1] It was recently displayed in the exhibit "Pirates: Myth and Reality" at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.