The effects of the Stuart Restoration and the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars on New England and Chesapeake Bay would have

Continue readingEpisode 161 – Step Lightly

We’re taking off at a run and covering New England’s pirate problem through the Thirty Years War and the First

Continue readingEpisode 160 – Wicked & Unrighteous Practices

Today we continue our look at New England. Puritan divisions, Indigenous politics, war, finally culminating in the tale of the

Continue readingEpisode 159 – A Sea Highwayman

We’re taking a very broad look at the arrival of Europeans into the North American world from about 1500 to

Continue readingEpisode 158 – North American Colonization

This is the conclusion of the drama on the Chesapeake. Richard Ingle, William Claiborne, Leonard Calvert, and Thomas Cornwaleys all

Continue readingEpisode 157 – Rascally Fellows of Desperate Fortunes

The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today’s drama

Continue readingEpisode 156 – High Treason

The fighting on the Chesapeake exploded in the 1630s between Virginia and Maryland. The trading post on Kent Island was

Continue readingEpisode 155 – Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder part 2

Jamestown, Virginia was growing into a viable colony when another party entered the American Colonial world. A formidable Catholic family

Continue readingEpisode 154 – Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder part 1

This is the story of the first act of piracy in the North American English colonies. But really it’s a

Continue readingEpisode 153 – The Scum of Men

This is the story of Sir Christopher Newport & John Smith and the colony at Jamestown. Smith is often lauded

Continue readingEpisode 152 – An Ambitious, Unworthy, & Vainglorious Fellow