John Vidal

1727) was a minor Irish-American pirate briefly active near Ocracoke Inlet off North Carolina.

Virginia Governor Robert Carter granted Vidal a temporary reprieve.

He wrote of Vidal to Everard, "I must own to you I have very little Compassion for persons Convicted of his Crime … It appeard very plainly to me from the Testimony against him as well as the rest that his heart was fully prepared for perpetrating the blackest of Vilianys, Altho the designe was laid with the greatest Improbability of Success.

"[7] Martha Farley (sometimes referred to as Mary Farlee or Mary Harvey) pleaded that she had no idea her husband Thomas meant to engage in piracy and thought he was returning them to friends they had left behind in the Province of South Carolina.

[3] Newly arrived North Carolina Lieutenant Governor William Gooch wrote to England on Vidal's behalf[8] after his advisors suggested a grant of clemency would be a good way to begin his tenure.