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Woodes Rogers (c. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Bahamas from 1718 to 1721 and again from 1728 to 1732. He is remembered as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk , whose plight is generally believed to have ...
To this end, it appointed former privateer Captain Woodes Rogers as royal governor. He successfully suppressed pirates, reformed the civil administration and restored trade. In February, 1719 Rogers had received news that the Spanish intended to invade and conquer the Bahamas.
Vane was back at Nassau on 22 July 1718 when Woodes Rogers reached Nassau to take office as the new governor. Rogers' ships trapped Vane in the harbour. Vane's ship was too large to pass one of the harbour's two entrances, and the other was blocked by Rogers' fleet.
In 1717 King George appointed Rogers governor of the Bahamas and issued a proclamation granting a pardon to any pirate who surrendered to a British governor within one year. [12] Woodes Rogers and his family by William Hogarth, 1729. Rogers, the first royal governor of the Bahamas, is seated as he is shown a map of New Providence.
In August 1729, new Governor Woodes Rogers was instructed by King George II to create a 24-member General Assembly for the Bahamas. Rogers issued a proclamation on 8 September, ordering eligible voters to meet at polling places during the next two weeks. [1]
Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Woodes Rogers: 26 July 1718: 1721 George Phenney: 1721: 1728 Woodes Rogers: August 1729: 16 July 1732 Richard Fitzwilliam (acting) 1734: 1738: John Tinker: 1741: 1758 [1] John Gambier (acting) 1758: 1760 William Shirley: 1760 [2] 1775 Montfort Browne: 1775: 3 March 1776 Commandant of the Bahama Islands (during American occupation, 1776) Samuel ...
The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the Bahamas during the Golden Age of Piracy [1] for about twelve years from 1706 until 1718.