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===Raid on Pemaquid (1717)=== In early May 1717, a sloop under the command of a Captain Carr was captured by ten [[pirate]]s on a 25-ton [[sloop]] (formerly owned by a Colonel Stephen Minot) in Pemaquid. The pirate sloop had come from [[Monhegan, Maine|Monhegan]] to the south, where on April 29, the [[Snow (ship)|Snow (a type of two masted vessel)]] ''Anne'' arrived. The ''Anne'' had originally been captured off the [[Virginia Capes]] in April by the pirate [[Samuel Bellamy]] in the ''[[Whydah Gally|Whydah]]'', which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717 off of Cape Cod. The ''Anne'' made it through the storm with another captured vessel, the ''Fisher'' (which was soon abandoned and the pirates aboard her transferred to the ''Anne''). The pirates arrived at Monhegan on April 29, and waited for the ''Whydah'', for the pirates had not seen nor heard about the ''Whydah'''s wrecking in the storm of the night of April 26. The pirates eventually realized the ''Whydah'' was lost, and proceeded to attack vessels in the area, including [[Matinicus Isle, Maine|Matinicus Island]] (which is where the sloop the pirates used at Pemaquid was captured from). The attack at Pemaquid was described in a deposition as follows: <blockquote>...[the pirates] went after Capt. Carr's sloop, lying at Pemaquid, which they alsoe took a little distance from said Pemaquid, but finding the Mast and Bowspreat not serviceable [to repair the snow] they left her there, and brought the Master thereof aboard the Snow then at Menhagen [Monhegan]...</blockquote> The pirates soon left the area, abandoning all the other vessels (including the ''Anne'') they had captured and most of their prisoners at Matinicus on or about May 9, 1717 on Minot's sloop.<ref>"Deposition of Ralph Merry and Samuel Roberts" Boston. May 11, May 16, 1717. in Jameson, John Franklin. ''Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents''. New York: Macmillan Company, 1923, pp. 301β302</ref>
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