Turn Joe

Turn Joe, “a bold enterprising Fellow,”[2] commanded a trio of ships under commission from a Spanish Governor in the Caribbean.

[3] Off Long Island in the Bahamas in late 1718 his ships were attacked by three pirates led by John Auger and Phineas Bunce, who mistook the Spanish vessels for salt-trading sloops.

[2] After questioning his prisoners, Turn Joe put the wounded men and those he’d determined to have been forced into piracy aboard a spare boat and released them to sail back to New Providence.

Hornigold returned with John Auger and the surviving pirates; they were tried in November 1718 and hanged shortly after.

[4] Turn Joe himself was eventually hunted down and killed by privateer John Bonnevie, who would later assist Jonathan Barnet in capturing Calico Jack.