Month: May 2026
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1696. Charles Town. The Provincial Court wasn’t necessarily built for spectacle, but that’s what it got the morning George Raynor was marched inside. The place was already thick with bodies — merchants in their best coats, sailors smelling of tar and sweat, ministers clutching their Bibles like shields. The air itself felt swollen, humid as…
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In the late 1690s, Captain George Raynor and his Red Seamen slipped back from the Indian Ocean with pockets full of foreign gold and a ship they dared not sail openly into Charles Town. They anchored instead behind the barrier islands, offloading guns and goods under cover of darkness before scuttling the Bachelor’s Delight to…
Virginia Chandler 