 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kushaiwa magavhuna anoshanda pashure paTrot, Nassau yakawira munguva dzakaoma. Muna 1703 mauto echiSpanish neechiFrench akabatana kwenguva pfupi akabata Nassau. Uyezve, Nassau yakatambura zvikuru mukati meHondo yeNhaka yeSpainuye vakanga vaona kupindirwa kweSpain mukati ma1703, 1704 na1706. Kubva muna 1703 kusvika muna 1718 kwakanga kusina gavhuna wepamutemo munharaunda yacho. Thomas Walker akanga ari mukuru mukuru wechitsuwa akasarira akasarira uye kunyange zvazvo uchapupu huri hupfupi, zvinoratidzika kuti akanga achiita basa remutevedzeri gavhuna pakusvika kwaBenjamin Hornigold muna 1713. Panguva iyi, Bahamas yakanga isina vanhu vakawanda yakanga yava nzvimbo inogara makororo inonzi New Providence. Gavhuna weBermuda akataura kuti kwaiva namakororo anopfuura 1.000 muNassau uye kuti iwo akanga akawanda kupfuura vagari vomutaundi vasingasviki zana. Vakazivisa Nassau kuva nyika yepirate, vachiziva kuti chitsuwa chacho chaiva nehupfumi hwaikwanisa kupa michero mitsva, nyama nemvura uye kudzivirirwa kwakakwana pakati penzira dzomumvura. Chiteshi chengarava cheNassau chakanga chakagadzirirwa kudzivirira uye chaigona kugamuchira ngarava dzinenge 500, kunyange zvazvo chakanga chisina kudzika zvikuru kugamuchira ngarava huru dzehondo. Benjamin Hornigold, pamwe chete nomukwikwidzi wake mukuru Henry Jennings, vakava mutongi asingazivikanwi wechokwadi chepirate republic iyo yakaita somugamuchiri wevanozviti Flying Gang. Mienzaniso yevapambi vakashandisa Nassau sehwaro hwavo ndiCharles Vane, Thomas Barrow uyo akazviti Gavhuna weNew Providence, Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, uye Edward Teach ane mukurumbira wakashata, anozivikanwa zviri nani se Blackbeard. 