"So our Heroe, Captain Teach, assumed the Cognomen of Black-beard, from that large Quantity of Hair, which, like a frightful Meteor, covered his whole Face, and frightened America more than any Comet that has appeared there a long Time."
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Charles Johnson, in A General History of the Pyrates (1724)
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Blackbeard
Edward Teach (also spelled Edward Thatch, c. 1680 - 22 November 1718), best known as Blackbeard, was an English Pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Not much is known about his early life, he may have been a Sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War.
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