Boston, Massachusetts and is commissioned as a pirate hunter. January – Captain Joseph Bannister, an English pirate who had eluded capture by Jamaican authorities for over two years, is captured and hanged on in Port Royal. December – The Duke of Albemarle arrives in Port Royal as Governor of Jamaica. 1688 James II issues his 1687/8 Act of Grace. Pierre le Picard arrives at Hispaniola and later that year retires to Acadie (Southeast Canada). 1689 Jean Bart and Claude de Forbin are captured by the Royal Navy and taken to Plymouth. Three days later they escape to Brittany in a rowing boat manned by 20 other sailors. April–March — Thomas Pound, formerly a mariner under Governor Edmund Andros, begins raiding coastal shipping soon after the Jacobite takeover of the New England colony of Pemaquid. July 8 — Thomas Pound, with six men including Thomas Hawkins, Thomas Johnson, Eleazer Buck, John Siccaden, Richard Griffen and Benjamin Blake sailed a sloop to Lovell's Island where they were joined by sailors Daniel Lander, Samuel Watts, William Warren, William Dun and Henry Dripper. August 16 — Thomas Pound captures the sloop Godspeed near Race Point. Exchanging their smaller ship for the Godspeed the Captain, John Smart, is sent with a message from Pound to Boston authorities that he knew where the English naval sloop was located. However, if they continued to pursue Pound "she should find hot work for they would die every man before they would be taken." The Armada de Barlovento locates La Salle's colony during an overland march, led by commander Alonso De León, from Coahuila discovered La Salle's Fort St. Louis near the head of Lavaca Bay (present day Victoria County, Texas). Laurens de Graff accepts a commission in the French navy as a Major by Governor Pierre-Paul Tarin de Cussy on the outbreak of the War of the Grand Alliance. Petit-Goâve Governor de Cussy commands a buccaneering expedition against the Spanish settlement of Santiago de los Caballeros, Honduras. October — Petit-Goâve Governor de Cussy leads a buccaneering expedition against Montego Bay in Jamaica. December — Petit-Goâve Governor de Cussy again raids Montego Bay in Jamaica. Births 1689 – Lars Gathenhielm Deaths 1683 – Nicholas van Hoorn 1684 – Michiel Andrieszoon References Piracy Piracy by year