How Did William Kidd Build Pirates

X Marks the Spot One person out of every eleven in the United States is a shoplifter ("Shoplifting"). Shoplifters are known for being preeminently discreet when it comes to hiding their treasures. Items that shoplifters steal range from food and alcohol, to laptops and expensive jewelry. Believe it or not these shoplifters are mimicking one of the most well known pirates, William Kidd. William Kidd was a simple captain that turned out to be one of the most famous pirates of all time, because his idea to bury his treasure when the British came to hang him revolutionized piracy. Kidd was not always a wanted criminal, in fact for most of his life he was well respected and had dreams to join the British Navy. His earliest known expedition was at the age of five when he left his hometown of Greenock, Scotland for New York after his father passed away. When he reached New York he met a wealthy widow named Sarah Bradley Cox Oort and they ended up getting married. As he grew older, he was introduced to privateering and fought alongside the British Navy against the French ("William"). Kidd worked mostly as a member of the crew, but had his heart set on becoming a commander of a British Navy ship. He tried to enlist in the British Navy, but was rejected. Instead, after a commander saw how much experience Kidd had fighting on the sea, he was

He was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. On May 23, 1701, Kidd was hung. Unfortunately, like many other failures in Kidd’s life, he had to be hung twice. The first time the hanging rope broke, but the second time it held strong. After his death, he was gibbeted, or in other words, his body was hung up as a warning to other pirates. His body was gibbeted for over twenty years ("Biography"). After his death, his treasure was unearthed from its resting place under the sand on Gardiners Island. This caused people to become interested in searching for buried