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Author Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer, author.

Title The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd / Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B KIDD S.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B KIDD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B KIDD, SARAH    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B KIDD, SARAH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 KIDD, SAR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B KIDD, S.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B KIDD    DUE 04-20-24
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B KIDD    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B KIDD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  B KIDD SARAH G    Missing

Description 288 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Prologue -- Sarah's new world -- William Cox and the she-merchant - Mayhem and tragedy -- Debts and bills -- Dead men tell no tales -- The golden age of piracy -- Fletcher's friends -- London -- Provisioning in New York -- Waiting -- Emott's secret -- Taking precautions -- Safe haven on Block Island -- Reunited -- Accomplice -- Buried treasure -- Confronting Bellomont -- Kidd's narrative -- Bellomont's secret -- Imprisoned -- The pirate's wife -- The king's ship -- Newgate -- Kidd's good deed -- Trial -- Tragic news -- New beginnings -- Full circle.
Summary In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York.
Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. Few know that he had an accomplice who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies: his wife, Sarah Kidd. Geanacopoulos reconstructs Sarah Kidd's life: Love, treasure, motherhood and survival. Sarah not only survived her husband, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New York's most prominent citizens. -- adapted from jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
Subject Kidd, Sarah.
Kidd, William, -1701.
Pirates -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9781335429841 (hardcover)
1335429840 (hardcover)
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