Thomas Barrow (pirate)

Removed from his post for assaulting another officer, he was later arrested in the Bahamas for stealing gold from a Spanish Marquis.

[2] He then led a crew diving the wrecks of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet, leaving a year later for Nassau.

[4] Barrow declared “that he is Governor of Providence and will make it a second Madagascar, and expects 5 or 600 men more from Jamaica sloops to join in the settling of Providence, and to make war on the French and Spaniards, but for the English, they don't intend to meddle with them, unless they are first attack'd by them.”[5] Barrow said that “he only waits for a vessell to go out a pirating;” even without a ship of his own he managed to rob two vessels in the harbor in quick succession.

[3] With Barrow and Hornigold's pirates threatening the few citizens and landowners left on the island, most settlers and colonists fled.

Governor Woodes Rogers arrived in the Bahamas in 1718 to accept the surrenders and hunt down any pirates who refused the pardon or returned to piracy.