Howard was found by the King of Anquala, who took care of him until he was picked up by a ship. Later on, Howard became captain of a fine vessel, the Prosperous, thirty-six guns, which he and some other pirates had seized at Madagascar. In her, Howard went cruising, eventually in company with Captain Bowen, attacking a Moorish fleet off St. John's Island. Howard followed the Moorish ships up a river, and, after a fierce fight, seized the largest and richest prize, a ship containing upward of a million dollars worth of goods. Howard, having now made a considerable fortune, retired from the piratical life and went to India, and there married a native woman and settled down. Howard, who was a morose, sour kind of man, ill-treated his wife, and he was at length murdered by some of her relations.
HUGGIT, Thomas.
Of London.
Hanged at Newport, Rhode Island, in July, 1723. Age 30.
HULL, Captain Edward.
Commanded the Swallow "frigott" in which he sailed from Boston in 1653, and captured several French and Dutch ships. He afterwards sold his vessels and went with his share of the plunder to England, where he settled down.
HUNTER, Andrew.
One of Captain Lowther's crew. Hanged at St. Kitts on March 11th, 1722.
HUSK, John.
One of Blackbeard's crew in the Queen Ann's Revenge. Killed off North Carolina in 1718.