Thomas Hawkins (pirate)

Once aboard they brandished arms and Pound announced that he intended to take up piracy, ostensibly to sail against the French in the West Indies.

[2] Near Casco Bay, Maine they took aboard soldiers from nearby Fort Loyal, who deserted to join the pirates.

Hawkins and Pound looted the brigantine Merrimack near Martha’s Vineyard before a storm forced the Good Speed as far south as Virginia.

In a letter he wrote, “by God thay kant hang me for what has bin don for no blood has bin shed.”[2] He tried to secure passage back to Boston aboard a whaling ship but was recognized; the ship’s captain, James Loper, agreed to take Hawkins but instead turned him in to the authorities immediately after arriving in Boston.

Hawkins was killed during the battle, while Pound survived and was pardoned for his piracies, eventually rising to command a Royal Navy ship of his own.