William Kidd Quotes


If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.


Citations

Howell, Thomas Bayly. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783. Vol. 14, T. C. Hansard, 1816.

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William Kidd
William Kidd
  • Born: May 23, 1701
  • Died: May 23, 1701
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Explorer

William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians, for example Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton, deem his piratical reputation unjust.