Charles Gibbs Otherwise Jeffers James J Book

Language: en
Pages: 102

Mutiny and murder. Confessions and life of C. Gibbs alias J. J. Jeffers ... who ... was hung in New York, ... for the murder of the captain and mate of the brig Vineyard, etc

Author(s): Charles GIBBS (otherwise JEFFERS (James J.))

Type: Book
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Published: 1831
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en

The Life and Extraordinary Confessions of Gibbs the Pirate, Etc

Author(s): Charles GIBBS (otherwise JEFFERS (James J.))

Type: Book
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Published: 1831
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 32

Confessions and Execution of the Pirates, Gibbs and Wansley, Etc

Author(s): Charles GIBBS (otherwise JEFFERS (James J.)), Thomas J. WANSLEY (Execution.)

Type: Book
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Published: 1831
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 712

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Extracted from the Catalogues of the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Library of Trinity College (Dublin), the National Library of Scotland, and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle: Phase 1: 1816-1870. v.15. Fort - Fyv and Indexes for volumes 11-15. v.20. Hor-Hunt, W. R. and Indexes for v. 16-20. v.21. Hunten-Jero. v.22. Jerp-Kief. v.23. Kieg-Lecom. v.24. Lecon-Lorc. v.25. Lord-Maccaul and Indexes for volumes 21-25

Categories: English literature

Type: Book
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Published: 1994
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 604

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870

Author(s): Avero Publications Limited

Categories: Reference

Type: Book
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Published: 1989
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 766

Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI.

Author(s): Henry Stevens, British Museum. Department of Printed Books

Categories: America

Type: Book
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Published: 1866
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Publisher: London : C. Whittingham

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Language: en
Pages: 1074

The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900

Author(s): British Museum. Department of Printed Books

Categories: English literature

Type: Book
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Published: 1946
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 244

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Author(s): Joseph Gibbs

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: Book
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Published: 2007
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Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of confessions. Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology that informs pirate lore to this day. Joseph Gibbs takes up the task of separating fact from fiction to explicate the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island - in an investigation that reveals a life as riveting as the legend it replaces.Jeffers was the ...