Thomas Magott[a] (fl. 1679–1680) was a minor pirate and privateer best known for joining a group of buccaneers in assaulting Spanish Puerto Bello.
History edit
In late 1679 Magott met with captains John Coxon, Bartholomew Sharpe, Robert Allison, and Cornelius Essex. His vessel, the smallest one in the fleet, was an unarmed 20-man, 14-ton sloop.[1] Using Coxon's forged privateering commission the fleet sailed to Puerto Bello, and alongside the two French buccaneers Rose and Bournano, sacked the city in February 1680.[2]
After refitting at Bocas del Toro and joining with reinforcements they marched overland to attack Panama, but “capt. Allisson and capt. Maggott being sickly were unable to march” and remained behind along with a skeleton crew to guard the ships.[3] Some of Allison's and Magott's men marched under Coxon, and “had each of them a red flag,” “most of them … armed with fuzee, pistol, and hanger.”[1] Magott himself played no further part in their adventures.[4][2]
See also edit
- William Dampier, Lionel Wafer, and Basil Ringrose - all three were present on the expedition and wrote journals and books documenting it on their return
Notes edit
- ^ Last name also Maggott, Macket, or Mackett.
References edit
- ^ a b Esquemeling, John (1947). The Buccaneers of America (Stallybrass ed.). New York: George Routledge and Sons Ltd., London. pp. 298–300. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ a b Marley, David (2010). Pirates of the Americas. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO. pp. 221–223. ISBN 9781598842012. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ Jameson, John Franklin (1923). Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period by J. Franklin Jameson. New York: Macmillan. p. 92. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ^ Downie, Robert (2005). The Way of the Pirate: Who's Who in Davy Jones' Locker. New York: ibooks. p. 157. ISBN 9781416504160. Retrieved 11 July 2019.