Haha! I know the feeling Hardluck, I was putting that together at 1:30 am and up at 7am adding to it
That would be Captain Tempest Rogers. I don't believe the two are the same, but I will have to dig to find out for sure. Name changes were common it seems for some reason.
These late 1600s bucaneers/pirates/privateers had quite a good ol boy network it seems. I think they all knew one another at some point. Of course someone as enigmatic as Davis would have met a good many having commanded such a large force I suppose.
Not to get too sidetracked from Davis but here is a bit more on Tempest Rodgers and the Fidelia who perhaps met with foul play? Or was it simply a fencing operation? hmmm
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About three weeks since we seized a ship and some East India goods here. The officers of the
Custom House were not nimble enough or we had got all the goods, worth above ?2,000. That
which gave us a jealousy of the ship was that William Symes, the master, went hence in poor
circumstances and came back master and half owner of this ship. He was formerly burnt in the
hand in this town for stealing. He said that being with his sloop at Crab Island (a maroon
island 60 leagues S. of Cura?ao), he met Tempest Rogers, master of the Fidelia of London,
who trucked her for his sloop. I fancied at first he had murdered Rogers and run away with
his ship. Mr. Secretary Addington and I examined him and his men severally, but could
discover nothing. Three or four days after, the master of a sloop from Providence told me
that Mr. Elding, chief in command there since Col. Webb's coming away, had seized Rogers and
his sloop with goods and money of a considerable value upon his going in thither. We believe
here that Rogers or Symes, or both, were on board the Quidah Merchand, which Kidd had left
at Hispaniola, and there got their loading of East India goods, Crab Island being very near
the place where the Quidah Merchand lay before she was burnt. You will observe that in
Symes' examination he says that Rogers told him he had remitted ?27,000 to his owners in
England in good bills of exchange. I send the certificate of the register of the Fidelia,
which will show who the owners are. Tempest Rogers, it's to be feared, was not sent from
London on an honest design. I hear he was at Rhode Island and sailed thence to Madagascar in
company of one Tho. Wake, a pirate. I am informing myself at Rhode Island about it. Perhaps
you will see cause to examine the owners. The deposition of Mr. Pain, deputy collector,
shows that Symes discovered to him goods different in quantity from what Symes declared in
his deposition enclosed. I suspect there is some roguery in this importation of E. India
goods by Symes, which I hope to find out in a little time. There being sufficient cause to
believe he came not honestly by 'em, I directed Mr. Secretary to require bail of him in
?1,000, which he not finding, he is committed to gaol. The sloop that received the goods
from the Fidelia is on a coasting voyage and shall be seized at her return. I writ your
Lordships (July 26) that I sent the sloop Antonio to Antegoa in quest of Bolton and Burt,
and to try if any of the goods that Kidd left in the Quidah Merchant could be retrieved.
Col. Yemans, Lt. Gov. of Antegoa, sent me two letters in reply to mine. Copies enclosed. The
master of the Sloop was forced to hasten away from Antegoa, or the sloop had been seized by
some persons who pretended themselves part owners of her with Bolton, who they said had no
power to sell her to Kidd. I have taken a great deal of pains to have right done to Capt.
Gullock, but have not been able to get the Council to join with me in ordering all the money
to be paid to him that was seized with Bradish and his accomplices. Several rewards they
would have the persons to receive that found and kept the money; I made a shift to bring it
down to a pretty moderate sum. But that which I cannot bear at their hands (and which I tell
'em will be an eternal dishonour to their Province), is their deducting a ?150 out of the
money to pay for the diet of the pirates since their being in gaol. I appointed three
gentlemen of the Council to receive the money and goods and make up an exact account, which
goes. They have paid all into the hands of Capt. Gullock who is gone to Rhode Island to
receive what money is in the hands of Gov. Cranston. Thence he will go to receive the money
Gov. Winthrop has seized in Connecticut colony. The ?942 19s. 3d.
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Indies: October 1699, 22-25', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies,
Volume 17: 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698 (1908), pp. 482-500. URL:
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A couple more tidbits to the Davis story, picking up where we left off:
July 24th, 1702, Davis sailed from Jamaica in the Blessing (Captain Brown; twenty guns, seventy-nine men), to attack the town of Tolu on the Spanish Main, which was plundered and burnt.
(note) Captain Brown died at Tolu from a pistol shot in the head. A man named Christian became captain of the Blessing. Davis tells us that "Christian was an old experienced soldier and privateer, very brave and just in all his actions." He had lived for a long while amongst the Darien Indians, with whom he was on friendly terms.
Christian ? Flibuster from Holland. Perhaps aka Tristian. Some called him French, not Dutch. With his ship in 1681in La Sound Cay (called after the pirate Le Sound alias Lessone) when Dampier ran into him there. Sold him beads to present to Dampier?s Indian guides. Was surprised by a Spanish guardacosta during a lull, escaped through industriously rowing. Sailed from ?le ? Vache in 1683 for Virginia with the spoils of two vessels, one of which was a ship; from France laden with wines. Some sources say he took part in De Graaf en Van Hoorn?s, successful crusade to Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 1683. Apparently had a long life.
Tristian (French) (c.1681) - rescued Dampier off La Sound's Key
After Tolu:
Davis next sailed to the Samballoes, and, guided by the Indians, who were friendly to the buccaneers, but hated the Spaniards, they attacked the gold-mines, where, in spite of most cruel tortures, they got but little gold. The crew next attacked Porto Bello, but found little worth stealing in that much harassed town.
So far I can find nothing about Davis at this point but he would be nearing 50 so perhaps he just retired.
More about Cleiss, Davis' servant/slave and friend up until he talked a bit much....
Cloise, Peter ? Buccaneer from Africa.
Aka Peter Cleiss. Was freed by Edward Davis from his Spanish owner in 1679. Became a close friend of his master Davis aboard the 14-gun ship Emanuel in the enterprises in the Caribbean as well as along South America?s Pacific coast. Had taken quite a number of ships and Spanish towns. With Davis when arrested at Philadelphia, May 1688. Was valued at fourteen pounds sterling as a slave and died while in Virginia, perhaps as a consequence of his damaging testimony against Davis, Wafer and Hinson. Davis is said to have responded to inquiries after Cleiss as "a negro now dead."
Dead men tell no tales
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