Richard Noland (pirate, privateer)

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Richard Noland (pirate, privateer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Noland

Richard Noland (fl. 1717-1724, last name occasionally Holland or Nowland) was an Irish pirate active in the Caribbean. He was best known for sailing with Samuel Bellamy before working for the Spanish.

Noland was Samuel Bellamy's quartermaster, later Captain of the prize Anne Galley.

Bellamy was caught in a storm off Cape Cod; he and the Whydah were lost at sea, while Noland and the others split up and departed

Noland, who had originally been part of Hornigold’s crew during the War of Spanish Succession, had taken aboard all of Bellamy’s men who still wanted to continue piracy.

Nolan accepted the King’s Pardon offered by Woodes Rogers in 1718, along with Hornigold, Williams, and hundreds of others. He then acted as recruiter for Hornigold on Nassau.

Noland was reported to have retired to lead a respectable life, and testified on behalf of other pirates seeking pardon

However, by summer 1718 he left the island to sign on with the Spanish as a guarda costa privateer.

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Other guarda costa privateers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brown_(pirate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bond_(pirate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Fitzgerald_(pirate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(pirate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bear_(pirate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Joe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Winter_(pirate)


The Spanish guarda costa privateers attacking English Ships
may have still have been considered as Pirates by the English