GREENSAIL, Richard.
One of Blackbeard's crew in the Queen Ann's Revenge. Hanged in Virginia in 1718.
GREENVILLE, Henry.
Hanged at Boston in 1726 with Captain Fly and Samuel Cole.
GRIFFIN, Jack.
Chief mate of a Bristol vessel. One of the chief mutineers on board the Bird galley in 1718, off Sierra Leone, when he befriended the captain of the Bird, with whom he had been at school. Took part in a feast to celebrate the success of the mutiny, the meal being cooked in a huge caldron in which the slaves' food was prepared. In this caldron were boiled, on this occasion, fowls, ducks, geese, and turkeys, which were unplucked; several Westphalian hams were added, and a "large sow with young embowled." The health of King James III., the Pretender, was drunk with full honours.
GRIFFIN, John.
Of Blackwall, Middlesex.
Taken out of the Mercy galley and appointed carpenter on board the Royal Fortune by Captain Roberts. Condemned to be hanged at Cape Coast Castle, but pardoned and sold to the Royal African Company as a slave for seven years.
GRIFFIN, Richard.