History - The Golden Age of Piracy

Colonial Period Newspaper Archives from 1736-1800

SC Newspapers (1732-1780), 

Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800)

Virginia Gazette (1736-1780)

From dropdown menu of sources, select all titles listed for each of the three publications (the titles of the newspapers changed frequently in this period) to find contemporary accounts of piracy including trials and hangings.  Search all spelling variations of the word "pirate" and "piracy"

 America's Historical Newspapers (1690 -1870)

Select Early Colonial Period (1690-1729), Development of Colonial Societies (1730 to 1753), and Seven Years War (1754 to 1763) as your time periods. Search all spelling variations of the word "pirate" and "piracy"

Use all the variants of spelling Pirate when searching the archives and databases.

• pyrate
• pyracy
• piracy
• pirates
• pyrates

Spelling wasn't standardized in this period, so if you want to find all the information, search using all the spellings.