Richard Glover (pirate)

Richard Glover, his brother-in-law John Hoar, Thomas Tew, and other captains had obtained privateering commissions from Governor Benjamin Fletcher of New York in 1694.

That autumn, Glover outfitted the 200-ton, 16-gun, 80-man ship[2] in Barbados and sailed for the east coast of Africa, following Tew's "Pirate Round" route.

Under command of ship's master John Ireland, the Amity quickly refitted and set out in December to hunt down the Charming Mary.

[2] Dirk Chivers' ship Resolution (taken in a mutiny from Robert Glover, no relation to Richard Glover[6]) was perilously low on supplies and badly damaged; that June off Fort Dauphin,[7] Chivers seized Amity, taking all its provisions and supplies and disassembling its masts, sails, and rigging to repair the Resolution.

[2] Richard Glover's ultimate fate is not known, though New York records show that his will - which he had the forethought to have written out and witnessed in 1696 before he took the Amity back out to sea - was paid out to his widow Mary and his two children in April 1698.