looking for websites about Devon based pirates?

Question

I am looking for websites or articles about Devon (uk) based pirates (sea pirates, not copyright pirates hehehe).. Google isnt being too helpful nor are local museums... Any information would be most welcome! thanks everyone!

Answer 1

try here

http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/pirate-fame.html

Answer 2

Edmund Condent (Congdon, Conden)
1718 to 1720. English. Ships: Flying Dragon. From Plymouth, Condent was second-in-command of a pirate sloop that fled New Providence when Woodes Rogers became governor in 1718. When an Indian, beaten up by the other crewmen, threatened to blow up the ship, Condent leaped into the hold and shot him. "When he was dead," Daniel Defoe writes, "the Crew Hack'd him to Pieces, and the Gunner ripping up his Belly, tore out his Heart, broiled and eat it."
Soon after, the pirates captured a merchant ship. They quarreled, and the captain and half the crew left in the prize, while the rest chose Condent captain. At the Cape Verde Islands, he took a Portuguese wine ship, an entire squadron of small boats, and a Dutch warship, which he kept and renamed the Flying Dragon.
Condent marauded along the Brazilian coast, seizing many merchantmen. Hearing that the Portuguese had imprisoned a pirate crew, Defore states, he cruelly tortured Portuguese prisoners, "cutting of their Ears and Noses." After taking more prizes along the West African coast, he reached Madagascar in June or July 1719. At the Saint Mary's Island, he picked up some of John Halsey's old crew.
Condent cruises in the Red Sea and along the Indian coast for more than a year. Near Bombay in October 1720, he captured a large Arab ship carrying treasure and precious cargo valued at 150,000 pounds. To avoid the East India Company's wrath, he ordered his men not to abuse the passengers and crew. The rich haul was shared out at Saint Mary's, each man receiving about 2,000 pounds. Condent and about 40 others went to Reunion Island and negotiated with the governor for a French pardon. About 20 settled on the island. According to Defore, Condent married the governor's sister-on-law, migrated to France, and became a wealthy merchant in Brittany.

Try the link. Takes a bit of searching through but the information is there.