The Sea Beggar
A Sloop of My Own
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The Sea Beggar
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Narrated by:
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David Carl
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James B Battles
In this Second novel A Sloop of My Own, tells his story of how he had his own sloop built by his brothers in Albany and obtained a letter of marque from the governor of New York to hunt Spanish and French prizes and to trade commodities like flour and tobacco in the Caribbean.
Ephraim and his brother Cornelius sailed to North Carolina in 1711. Queen Anne’s War between Great Britain against Spain and France is still in full swing. North Carolina at the was at the time was wild and wooly place with fights over the government of the new colony and threats of attack by Native Americans.
Along the way the brothers captured a Spanish privateer sloop which they kept as their own with his brother Cornelius as the captain. Together Ephraim in his sloop the Watergeuzen and Cornelius in the former Spanish sloop renamed Wyntie Bosch operated out of North Carolina and sailing the Caribbean.
Together the Bogardus brother traded tobacco for arms on the Dutch island of Stint Eustatius also known Golden Rock, Ephriam tells how he fought Native American tribes in North Carolina and captured Spanish and French ships to take as prizes.
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