Paulsgrave Williams

Paulsgrave Williams (c. 1675 – after 1723), first name occasionally Paul, Palsgrave, or Palgrave, was a pirate who was active 1716–1723 and sailed in the Caribbean, American eastern seaboard, and off West Africa.

The approaching ships were not Royal Navy or privateers; they were fellow pirates led by Henry Jennings, James Carnegie, and Leigh Ashworth.

Impressed with Bellamy and Williams – and no fan of Jennings - Hornigold took them in and joined forces with them alongside Olivier Levasseur’s ship Postillion.

Bellamy transferred to the Sultana, giving Williams the Marianne and letting Pearl go free with all the sailors who refused to take up piracy.

[2] In February 1717 they spotted the slave ship Whydah Gally (occasionally Ouidah, Wedaw, Whido, etc.

[4] They agreed to meet off the coast of Maine; Bellamy took the Whydah back toward Cape Cod with Noland while Williams put in at Block Island in mid-April to visit relatives.

He sold the worn-out Marianne and along with Hornigold and many others, accepted the pardon offered by King George to all pirates who surrendered by September 1718.