Captain Nelson Pirate

 

 

 

 

Captain Nelson  is  one of the pirates  who did not seem to make it into popular culture  but belongs   whole heartily   to the  era of  the  General  history or Charles Ellms  Pirates own  book

 

Nelson    with   a fearsome reputation on the eastern seaboard   but no recorded  first  name  is  mentioned in the briefest  of  biographies as  either  no relation or a  distant relation of the  hero of  Trafalgar (with whom he was   perhaps contemporary  ) and not at all in any modern  Pirate encyclopaedia

 

Nelson  you can call him    "Mad Jack Nelson"  or "Dangerous  Nelson"  was   the spoilt son   of a rich father   who bought him a farm on  Prince Edward Island    where young "Dangerous " Nelson  married  and grew potatoes  and fruit  for market  which he  took to market in his small ship.

One day Nelson was disgraced on Prince Edward  Island  and banished to America  where  the new cut throat  ex fruit sailor  Captain Nelson   remodelled  his Potato  ship as a 10 gun " little New York battleship"   and  began a  career of  undated and unrecorded  infamous  piracy. 

 

A destroyer of  English and Ditch shipping  whose rich cargoes  (fruit and potatoes?) he sold on  in New York   in a three year reign  of unhistorical terror    Nelson and his partner Morrison  became "the richest of  rich men" 

Sailing back to Prince Edward island  "where he was neither arrested or  hanged "  to collect his wife and family  Nelson's battleship was lost in the fog " within sight of Montauk  with the gold of sixteen  prizes   on board   and although  Morrison and crew were drowned

Nelson landed safely  in New York "where he was neither arrested or  hanged "   living  richly  respected  and peacefully  with  his wife and family   to a great age 

like many other  nameless captains  out of  Irving's Golden dreams   with  the starving beggar  Henry Every   looking in

 

The  wreck of Nelsons Golden Montauk belongs more to off shore of Coney island   and the whole nelson story is a passable  but un archived tale  of the glorious rolling  rollicking  Pirate stereotype