The Witch and the Pirate
The Tragic Love Story of Maria “Goody” Hallett and “Black Sam” Bellamy
5 min readDec 25, 2020
In the wake of the War of the Spanish Succession, after the Peace of Utrecht, countless privateers and veterans of the Royal Navy became unemployed sailors. Some of those desperate jobseekers then headed from England to New England to make a fresh start in life. Among them was a good-looking, charismatic…
