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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: April 19, 2013
Caption: Edward Teach Marker
Additional Description: Although Governor Eden sat over one of the most important gubernatorial terms in the state’s history, he acquired a reputation for befriending the pirate Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard. The pirate eventually settled in Bath and married a local woman, and some sources record that the governor “presided over the ceremony.” In time, other leading North Carolinians criticized Eden for not aggressively stamping out piracy in the colony. The extent of the governor and the pirate’s relationship is unknown, however. (North Carolina History Project)
Submitted: April 27, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p240222
File Size: 0.357 Megabytes

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