James Allison (pirate)

[3] They sailed to Amsterdam later that year;[4] by late January 1691 the Good Hope under Captain Jeremiah Tay arrived at Mayo in the Cape Verde islands to collect salt.

The visitor was Captain James Allison who claimed to be from New York, sailing out of South Carolina with a privateering commission against the French.

Allison and a few others went aboard Tay's ship to visit, but claimed his doctor had locked the cupboard before leaving, preventing them from making punch (sugared liquor).

[2] He and his crew took the Good Hope, retrieving Tay's men from ashore and putting most of them on Allison's looted sloop.

[2] Tay and his men made it back to Barbados later that February and delivered a deposition to the court in March regarding Allison's actions.