A Six Weeks' Pirate About the time of Stede Bonnet's terminal adventures a very unpretentious pirate made his appearance in the waters of New York.

This was a man named Richard Worley, who set himself up in piracy in a very small way, but who, by a strict attention to business, soon achieved a remarkable success.

He started out as a scourge upon the commerce of the Atlantic Ocean with only an open boat and eight men.

In this small craft he went down the coast of New Jersey taking everything he could from fishing boats and small trading vessels until he reached Delaware Bay, and here he made a bold stroke and captured a good-sized sloop.
When this piratical outrage was reported at Philadelphia, it created a great sensation, and people talked about it until the open boat with nine men grew into a great pirate ship filled with roaring desperadoes and cutthroats.

From Philadelphia the news was sent to New York, and that government was warned of the great danger which threatened the coast.