Indian Ocean pirates were supplied by a New York merchant.

1691

Frederick Philipse shipped rum and powder to Madagascar, where Adam Baldridge ran a store for pirates, and took their loot in return.

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• The pirate haven of Île Sainte-Mariec. 1691 · Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar. Around 1691 the fugitive Englishman Adam Baldridge set up a trading post for Indian Ocean pirates on an island off Madagascar. He sold them rum, powder and food shipped by the New York merchant Frederick Philipse, and sent the loot back. Henry Every, Thomas Tew and William Kidd all called here.

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