From the Virginian-Pilot, September 16, 2020:
Stede Bonnet was living the life by the age of 28: He was rich. He was married with three children, and the family lived on a 400-acre estate on a lush Caribbean island.
Then he left it all behind. He became a pirate.
In the early 1700s, Bonnet spent portions of his criminal career looting ships along the Virginia Beach coast. Bonnet’s true-life pirate tale is the subject of the new book “The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet,” which was released this week just in time for “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” on Saturday.
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