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Confession of a Chesapeake Oyster War Pirate Captain
The narrator recalls the Chesapeake Bay oyster war with Captain Rufe, a brutal pirate who cheats and disposes of men for wages. He risks death on a swaying pungy as the boom jibes, fearing execution at the captain’s hands and clings to survival amid the brutal voyage.
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George Woolsey Symms
Symms
Chesapeake Bay
United States Revenue Service
Philadelphia
Chesapeake
Turkey Point
Rufe
Rufus
Squarehead
W ‘Tel
Angel Child
Poe