Thomas Magott
{{Short description|English minor pirate and privateer}}
Thomas Magott{{efn|Last name also Maggott, Macket, or Mackett.}} (fl. 1679–1680) was a minor pirate and privateer best known for joining a group of buccaneers in assaulting Spanish Puerto Bello.
History
In late 1679 Magott met with captains John Coxon, Bartholomew Sharpe, Robert Allison, and Cornelius Essex. His vessel, the smallest one in the fleet, was an unarmed 20-man, 14-ton sloop.{{cite book |last1=Esquemeling |first1=John |title=The Buccaneers of America |date=1947 |publisher=George Routledge and Sons Ltd., London |location=New York |edition=Stallybrass |pages=298–300 |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01962 |access-date=22 January 2023}} Using Coxon's forged privateering commission the fleet sailed to Puerto Bello, and alongside the two French buccaneers Rose and Bournano, sacked the city in February 1680.{{cite book|last1=Marley|first1=David|title=Pirates of the Americas|date=2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara CA|isbn=9781598842012|pages=221–223|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bU6ML_VnXTwC|accessdate=12 September 2017|language=en}}
After refitting at Bocas del Toro and joining with reinforcements they marched overland to attack Panama, but “capt. Allisson and capt. Maggott being sickly were unable to march” and remained behind along with a skeleton crew to guard the ships.{{cite book|last1=Jameson|first1=John Franklin|title=Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period by J. Franklin Jameson|date=1923|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|page=92|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24882/24882-h/24882-h.htm|accessdate=26 June 2017}} Some of Allison's and Magott's men marched under Coxon, and “had each of them a red flag,” “most of them … armed with fuzee, pistol, and hanger.” Magott himself played no further part in their adventures.{{cite book |last1=Downie |first1=Robert |title=The Way of the Pirate: Who's Who in Davy Jones' Locker |date=2005 |publisher=ibooks |location=New York |isbn=9781416504160 |page=157|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eo7vX4wdHiYC |accessdate=11 July 2019 |language=en}}
See also
- William Dampier, Lionel Wafer, and Basil Ringrose - all three were present on the expedition and wrote journals and books documenting it on their return
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