John Hoar (died 1697, last name occasionally Hoare or Hore) was a pirate and privateer active in the late 1690s in the Red Sea area.
Hoar and his frigate Dublin had been granted a privateering commission from Governor Sir William Beeston of Jamaica, and near Canada had taken a 200-ton, 14-gun French prize called St. Paul. [1] In January 1694 he convinced the Rhode Island General Assembly to convene an Admiralty Court and award him the prize so he could swap vessels, renaming the ship John and Rebecca. [2] He then purchased a second privateering commission from Governor Benjamin Fletcher of New York. Fletcher later claimed no knowledge of Hoar's piracy, despite having previously granted a commission to Hoar's own brother-in-law Richard Glover, also a privateer-turned-pirate. [3]
The John and Rebecca sailed for the Cape of Good Hope and the Persian Gulf in December 1695. It was during this voyage that Abraham Samuel was elected ship's quartermaster. [4] After some navigation trouble they put in at Adam Baldridge’s pirate trading post at St. Augustine in Madagascar until April 1696. [5] Before leaving for the Red Sea they picked up some of the surviving crew from Thomas Wake’s Susanna; Wake and a number of his crew had taken sick and died of illness a short while earlier. [3]
Hoar sailed alongside Dutch pirate Dirk Chivers in the Red Sea, plundering several ships including the Bombay-bound Rouparelle and Calicut in August 1696. [6] Hoar then parted from Chivers to stalk the Persian Gulf, where in early 1697 he captured a 300-ton Indian ship near Surat. [6] He returned to Baldridge's settlement with the prize in February 1697, where he remained several months, trading with Baldridge and other pirates who called there. [3]
In July 1697 the natives rebelled, killing a number of pirates and their crews. Some sources point to Hoar's death during the rebellion; [3] others say he was already dead of illness by that time, and that only his ship and a partial crew remained when the settlement was destroyed. [5] Abraham Samuel escaped the attack and took a few shipmates with him in the decrepit John and Rebecca; they wrecked shortly afterward but were taken in as guests by a native princess, and Samuel went on to found a pirate trading camp near Fort Dauphin. [5] A few of Hoar's other crewmen made it back to New England where they were arrested in 1699 for harboring some of William Kidd's pirates, including James Kelly. [7]
John Hoar (died 1697, last name occasionally Hoare or Hore) was a pirate and privateer active in the late 1690s in the Red Sea area.
Hoar and his frigate Dublin had been granted a privateering commission from Governor Sir William Beeston of Jamaica, and near Canada had taken a 200-ton, 14-gun French prize called St. Paul. [1] In January 1694 he convinced the Rhode Island General Assembly to convene an Admiralty Court and award him the prize so he could swap vessels, renaming the ship John and Rebecca. [2] He then purchased a second privateering commission from Governor Benjamin Fletcher of New York. Fletcher later claimed no knowledge of Hoar's piracy, despite having previously granted a commission to Hoar's own brother-in-law Richard Glover, also a privateer-turned-pirate. [3]
The John and Rebecca sailed for the Cape of Good Hope and the Persian Gulf in December 1695. It was during this voyage that Abraham Samuel was elected ship's quartermaster. [4] After some navigation trouble they put in at Adam Baldridge’s pirate trading post at St. Augustine in Madagascar until April 1696. [5] Before leaving for the Red Sea they picked up some of the surviving crew from Thomas Wake’s Susanna; Wake and a number of his crew had taken sick and died of illness a short while earlier. [3]
Hoar sailed alongside Dutch pirate Dirk Chivers in the Red Sea, plundering several ships including the Bombay-bound Rouparelle and Calicut in August 1696. [6] Hoar then parted from Chivers to stalk the Persian Gulf, where in early 1697 he captured a 300-ton Indian ship near Surat. [6] He returned to Baldridge's settlement with the prize in February 1697, where he remained several months, trading with Baldridge and other pirates who called there. [3]
In July 1697 the natives rebelled, killing a number of pirates and their crews. Some sources point to Hoar's death during the rebellion; [3] others say he was already dead of illness by that time, and that only his ship and a partial crew remained when the settlement was destroyed. [5] Abraham Samuel escaped the attack and took a few shipmates with him in the decrepit John and Rebecca; they wrecked shortly afterward but were taken in as guests by a native princess, and Samuel went on to found a pirate trading camp near Fort Dauphin. [5] A few of Hoar's other crewmen made it back to New England where they were arrested in 1699 for harboring some of William Kidd's pirates, including James Kelly. [7]