John Taylor (pirate)

John Taylor (pirate)

John Taylor was a pirate who lived in the early 18th century.

At Reunion Island (off the coast of Madagascar) in April 1721, he together with Olivier Levasseur captured the most valuable prize in pirate history, variously described as "Nostra Senora della Cabo", "Nostra Senhora do Cabo", or "Nossa Senhora do Cabo".

Further reading

*Rogozinski, Jan. "Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend". New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. ISBN 0-306-80722-X
*Rogozinski, Jan. "Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Republic Libertalia". Mechanicsburg, Pa: Stackpole Books, 2000. ISBN 0-8117-1529-9
*Seitz, Don Carlos. "Under the Black Flag: Exploits of the Most Notorious Pirates" Mineola, Ny: Courier Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN 0-486-42131-7

External links

* [http://www.thepiratesrealm.com/Edward%20England.html Edward England] at [http://www.thepirate'srealm.com The Pirate's Realm]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/realm/peggiss/pirateID.html#John%20Taylor John Taylor] at Liberty StarCastle's [http://www.angelfire.com/realm/peggiss/StarCastlesWorld.html World of Pirates]
* [http://pirateshold.buccaneersoft.com/roster/pirate_roster_t.html John Taylor] at [http://pirateshold.buccaneersoft.com/index.htm The Pirate's Hold]


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