Peter Roderigo
Peter Roderigo | |
---|---|
Nationality | Dutch |
Occupation(s) | Pirate, privateer, soldier |
Peter Roderigo (fl. 1674–1675, last name occasionally Oderigoe) was a Dutch pirate, privateer, and soldier. He is best known for attacking English traders off Acadia and for serving in King Philip’s War.
History
Dutch buccaneer Jurriaen Aernoutsz ejected the French from Acadia alongside John Rhoades.[1] On his departure in 1674 he left Rhoades, Cornelius Andreson, and Peter Roderigo with privateering commissions to keep out the French and prevent the English from making inroads into New Holland.[2]
Roderigo led their group from his ship Edward and Thomas. They soon captured an English fur trader named George Manning. After looting his ship and threatening to maroon him, they allowed him to keep his ship if he would sail alongside them under the Dutch flag.[3] The flotilla stopped a number of other ships, looting them of pelts and furs and threatening the sailors.[4]
English sailors and merchants complained to local officials, who commissioned privateer and Indian fighter Samuel Mosely to sail against the Dutch.[2] Roderigo and his fleet tried to fight Mosely’s ships but Manning immediately switched sides to aid the English; outgunned severely, the Dutch surrendered.[1] English courts ignored the Dutch privateering commissions, which had been signed not by Prince William of Orange but by Aernoutsz himself. Most of the Dutch were convicted of piracy at trial in 1675 but all were eventually either acquitted, pardoned, or sentenced to hang but commuted to banishment instead.[4]
Roderigo would later rejoin the English, fighting alongside Mosely’s fellow Indian fighter Joshua Scottow near Scarborough, Maine. Andreson would also join the English, fighting under Mosely against the Wabanaki Confederacy in King Philip’s War.[3]
See also
- Jean Baptiste Guedry - An Acadian who, like Andreson, was tried for piracy against the English.
- Increase Mather - Puritan minister who preached at Roderigo's trial; his son Cotton Mather would later preach at the trials of many other New England pirates.
Further reading
- Baxter, James Phinney (1900). The Baxter Manuscripts. Portland ME: Thurston Print. pp. 132–135. Retrieved 14 July 2017. - Extensive collection letters and transcripts pertaining to Andreson, Rhoades, Roderigo, and their trial, as well as Aernoutsz and Acadia.
- The Times of men are in the hand of God, OR A SERMON Occasioned by that awfull Providence which hapned in BOSTON in NEW-ENGLAND - The sermon preached by Increase Mather.
References
- ^ a b Selinger, Gail (2017). Pirates of New England: Ruthless Raiders and Rotten Renegades. Guilford CT: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 31–40. ISBN 9781493029303. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b Bodge, George Madison (1906). Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620-1677. Boston: Author. pp. 61–62, 115. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b Little, Benerson (2007). The Buccaneer's Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688. Dulles VA: Potomac Books, Inc. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9781612343617. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b Dow, George Francis; Edmonds, John Henry (2012). The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730. New York: Courier Corporation. pp. 45–51. ISBN 9780486138145. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- v
- t
- e
- Albanian piracy
- Anglo-Turkish piracy
- Baltic Slavic pirates
- Barbary pirates (corsairs)
- Brethren of the Coast
- Buccaneers
- Cilician pirates
- Child pirate
- Cossack pirates
- Fillibusters
- French corsairs
- Jewish pirates
- Moro pirates
- Narentines
- Privateers
- River pirate
- Sea Beggars
- Sea Dogs
- Sindhi corsairs
- Timber pirate
- Ushkuyniks
- Uskoks
- Vikings
- Victual Brothers
- Wokou
- Women in piracy
Atlantic World | |
---|---|
Indian Ocean | |
Other waters | |
Pirate havens and bases |
- Adventure Galley
- Ambrose Light
- Fancy
- Flying Dutchman
- Ganj-i-Sawai
- Queen Anne's Revenge
- Quedagh Merchant
- Marquis of Havana
- My Revenge
- Royal Fortune
- Saladin
- Whydah Gally
- York
- 1582 Cagayan battles
- 1985 Lahad Datu ambush
- Action of 9 November 1822
- Action of 28 October 2007
- Action of 11 November 2008
- Action of 9 April 2009
- Action of 23 March 2010
- Action of 1 April 2010
- Action of 5 April 2010
- Anti-piracy in the Aegean
- Antelope incident
- Anti-piracy in the West Indies
- Attack on Veracruz
- Balanguingui Expedition
- Battle of Boca Teacapan
- Battle of Cape Fear River
- Battle of Cape Lopez
- Battle of Doro Passage
- Battle of Mandab Strait
- Battle of Manila
- Battle off Minicoy Island
- Battle off Mukah
- Battle of Nam Quan
- Battle of New Orleans
- Battle of Ocracoke Inlet
- Battle of Pianosa
- Battle of the Leotung
- Battle of the Tiger's Mouth
- Battle of Tonkin River
- Battle of Ty-ho Bay
- Battle of Tysami
- Beluga Nomination incident
- Blockade of Charleston (Vane)
- Chepo Expedition
- Capture of the Ambrose Light
- Capture of John "Calico Jack" Rackham
- Capture of the schooner Bravo
- Capture of the schooner Fancy
- Capture of the sloop Anne
- Carré d'As IV incident
- Dai Hong Dan incident
- Falklands Expedition
- Great Lakes Patrol
- Irene incident
- Jiajing wokou raids
- Maersk Alabama hijacking
- MT Zafirah hijacking
- MT Orkim Harmony hijacking
- MV Moscow University hijacking
- North Star affair
- Operation Enduring Freedom – HOA
- Operation Atalanta
- Operation Dawn of Gulf of Aden
- Operation Dawn 8: Gulf of Aden
- Operation Ocean Shield
- Persian Gulf Campaign
- Pirate attacks in Borneo
- Quest incident
- Raid on Cartagena
- Sack of Baltimore
- Sack of Campeche
- Salvador Pirates
- Slave raid of Suðuroy
- Turkish Abductions
- African slave trade
- African Slave Trade Patrol
- Amistad Incident
- Atlantic slave trade
- Barbary slave trade
- Blockade of Africa
- Capture of the Veloz Passagera
- Capture of the brig Brillante
- Indian Ocean slave trade
- Trans-Saharan slave trade
popular
culture
Fictional pirates |
|
---|---|
Novels |
|
Tropes | |
Miscellaneous |
Lists | |
---|---|
Categories |
|
- Piracy portal
- Category