George Bond (pirate)

On arriving in St. Thomas he purchased a Dutch ship from Governor Esmit, renaming it Fortune’s Adventure.

[2] After Bond brought him a Dutch prize in December, Esmit maintained it had been salvaged as a shipwreck in order to deter an English party from reclaiming it.

He is expected at St. Thomas where Captain Carlisle is ready for him.”[2] Carlile was unable to capture Bond, and a frustrated Stapleton minced no words when speaking of Esmit's support of Bond, Jean Hamlin, and other pirates: “My lords, there is no safe trading to or from these parts until that receptacle of thieves and sea-robbers be reduced or that Governor hanged who so openly protects them.”[2] Bond also spent a brief time sailing alongside English buccaneer John Eaton.

[6] Around June 1684 Bond captured the formerly French sloop Fox and again brought it to Esmit, who refused the pleas from a Jamaican representative to return it.

[7] Bond's ultimate fate is unknown, though he reportedly sailed as a Spanish guarda costa privateer for a time.