Gold for a Wound: The Pirate Code in Action On July 12, 1717, in New York, Jeremiah Higgins, former sailor of the same pirate sloop Mary Ann, which a month earlier stood at Sandy Hook, was interrogated (for more details, see the previous post in the section). They took him to New York, in the house where he was staying, and with him they found a whole fortune: "14 guns in gold, 7½ ounces of gold sand, 81 or 82 pisters in silver, and a piece of silver of 17 ounces. " A piece of silver bullion about seventeen ounces]. It is about a quarter of a kilogram of gold dust and half a kilogram of silver in an ingot, not counting coins! Where does a pirate get that kind of money? Higgins explained himself, and the official who recorded the interrogation recorded his words in the minutes: all this "was given to him by order because of the injury he received between them" [given to him by the company because he was injured between them]. He got the wound long before that, in the Caribbean. Between the islands of St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, 2 pirate sloops attacked a French ship with "40 guns" for about an hour and finally retreated. The pirates had 1 dead, 4 wounded, among them Higgins. Then he was so ill for a long time that he "could not move" [unable to stir]. The team didn't abandon the wounded man - they paid him. The same pirates who in the previous story gave the skipper 4 piastres (pounds) for a pack of lard, and according to the captain 16 (pounds 4) for a drummer with a drum, gave ten times as much to their wounded friend. One silver coin here costs 80 piastres. Gold dust in New York that summer was exchanged for 3 pounds 6 shillings an ounce; Counting, as the pirates themselves believed, at 4 piastres per kilogram, Higgins' sand was worth about a hundred piastres. 14 guns according to Spanish count - another 56. Together with the ingot, about 250 piastres come out.

Gold for a Wound: The Pirate Code in Action On July 12, 1717, in New York, Jeremiah Higgins, former sailor of the same pirate sloop Mary Ann, which a month earlier stood at Sandy Hook, was interrogated (for more details, see the previous post in the section). They took him to New York, in the house where he was staying, and with him they found a whole fortune: "14 guns in gold, 7½ ounces of gold sand, 81 or 82 pisters in silver, and a piece of silver of 17 ounces. " A piece of silver bullion about seventeen ounces]. It is about a quarter of a kilogram of gold dust and half a kilogram of silver in an ingot, not counting coins! Where does a pirate get that kind of money? Higgins explained himself, and the official who recorded the interrogation recorded his words in the minutes: all this "was given to him by order because of the injury he received between them" [given to him by the company because he was injured between them]. He got the wound long before that, in the Caribbean. Between the islands of St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, 2 pirate sloops attacked a French ship with "40 guns" for about an hour and finally retreated. The pirates had 1 dead, 4 wounded, among them Higgins. Then he was so ill for a long time that he "could not move" [unable to stir]. The team didn't abandon the wounded man - they paid him. The same pirates who in the previous story gave the skipper 4 piastres (pounds) for a pack of lard, and according to the captain 16 (pounds 4) for a drummer with a drum, gave ten times as much to their wounded friend. One silver coin here costs 80 piastres. Gold dust in New York that summer was exchanged for 3 pounds 6 shillings an ounce; Counting, as the pirates themselves believed, at 4 piastres per kilogram, Higgins' sand was worth about a hundred piastres. 14 guns according to Spanish count - another 56. Together with the ingot, about 250 piastres come out.