tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post2909073930559302239..comments2024-03-26T11:03:45.486+00:00Comments on Let us Talk of Many Things; of Books and Queens and Pirates, of Mystery and Kings...: A College founded on Pirate Loot? Surely Not? (Part Three Tuesday Talk )Helen Hollickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-51601806655598943272014-02-18T14:11:46.310+00:002014-02-18T14:11:46.310+00:00Thank you Betty for leaving a comment. I didn'...Thank you Betty for leaving a comment. I didn't write the piece, John F Millar did, so I can't answer your question, however, you can contact him via his website : <br />http://newporthousebb.com/contact-2/Helen Hollickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-1641753932221515202014-02-17T17:25:00.186+00:002014-02-17T17:25:00.186+00:00I have been researching Captain George Raynor and ...I have been researching Captain George Raynor and tbe Red Sea Pirates for 15 years. I know many of the crew of the Bachelor's Delight were scattered all along the coast of Colonial America where they settled as planters and merchants an d such. Captain Raynor settled at Johns Island SC and Charleston. He married Dorcas Davis. His daughter Mary wed King Roger Moore who along with his brothers relocated to the Cape Fear area of NC along witb brothers Maurice and Nathaniel. I am a Raynor and can trace my roots to NC only. How do you know Captain Raynor was from New York? My information shows he relocated to SC from Jamaica and brought many settlers. I have wondered if Our southern Raynors connect to the Raynors who originally settled Long Island. Could you provide me any information to sustantiate George Raynors NY origins. Many thanks. Betty Raynor-Davis siberianhuskies@ymail.com<br /><br />Betty Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318600837544656999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-83804818658037293142012-04-24T16:17:25.088+00:002012-04-24T16:17:25.088+00:00John Millar has sent me an update on the story:-
...John Millar has sent me an update on the story:-<br /><br />"Dear Helen,<br />It now turns out that Davis was acquitted at the trial in London at which Kelley was found guilty. Davis returned to Hampton, Virginia. However, as soon as war was declared between England and Spain, he rushed down to the Caribbean, crossed over the Isthmus of Panama with a few friends, stole a ship, and sailed to Isla Coco, where he dug up the portion of the Batchelors Delight treasure he had buried several years earlier, and then returned to Hampton. After that, all records of him disappear, but I venture to suggest that the 1705 destruction of the College of William & Mary by fire would have caused the College authorities (there was no fire insurance in those days) to ask Davis to kick in a sum of money for the rebuilding, and I suspect that he did. The governor would naturally have also found a sum to add, and some of the local wealthy tobacco growers would also have added some to the pot."<br /><br />Thank you John!Helen Hollickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.com