Robert Glover (died 1697/98) was an Irish-American pirate active in the

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and

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area in the late 1690s.

Biography

Irishman Robert Glover had the 200-ton, 18-gun, 60-man ship ''Resolution'' fitted out in Rhode Island around 1693, then headed to New York to obtain a

privateer A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...

ing commission from Governor

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. Fletcher would later come under fire for granting (and selling) commissions to known pirates such as Glover,

Thomas Tew Thomas Tew (died September 1695), also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th-century English privateer-turned-pirate. He embarked on two major pirate voyages and met a bloody death on the second, and he pioneered the route which became kn ...

Joseph Faro Joseph Faro ( fl. 1694–1696, last name occasionally Farrell, Firra, or Faroe) was a pirate from Newport active during the Golden Age of Piracy, primarily in the Indian Ocean. He is best known for sailing alongside Thomas Tew to join Henry Every ...

, and others. Joseph Faro’s ship ''Portsmouth Adventure'' had wrecked on

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leaving him and his crew stranded.

Henry Every Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659after 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases ...

rescued Faro and some of the crew while

Dirk Chivers Dirk Chivers (, last name occasionally Shivers) was a Dutch pirate active in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Early career Dirk Chivers is first recorded as a crew member of the ''Portsmouth Adventure'', , under Captain Joseph Faro (or Farrell) around ...

and others remained behind. Glover’s ''Resolution'' picked up Chivers and the remaining crew later in 1695. Now with 110 men, Glover sailed to the Red Sea to hunt Moorish ships. Having missed the lucrative Indian fleets at the mouth of the Red Sea, they sailed to the west coast of India and took a 12-gun

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ship as a prize near Rajapur. Glover reportedly quarreled with his officers and crew, and after taking only the single small ship, Chivers led a mutiny. Glover and 24 supporters were put onto the run-down prize ship ("the ship was old and would hardly swim with them to St. Maries") which sailed for

Adam Baldridge Adam Baldridge ( fl. 1690 – 1697) was an English pirate and one of the early founders of the pirate settlements in Madagascar. History After fleeing from Jamaica to escape murder charges, Baldridge sailed to Madagascar and, by 1690, had establ ...

’s pirate-friendly trading settlement near

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at Madagascar, where they stayed until late 1697 or early 1698. Chivers and the ''Resolution'' met up with

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and went on to take a number of Moorish vessels, eventually following Glover to Madagascar to repair their ship. There they captured Thomas Tew’s old ship the ''Amity'' (which was under the command of Richard Glover, unrelated to Robert Glover) and looted it to refit and resupply the ''Resolution''. Glover offered to forgive them if they would restore him to his command and return to the Americas; Chivers and the crew in turn offered to accept Glover back if would stay in the Red Sea area and continue piracy. Glover refused and Chivers sailed out without him. Within a year the natives near Baldridge’s trading post rose in revolt, overrunning and destroying the settlement. A number of pirate captains and their crews were killed in the fighting, including Robert Glover, Joseph Faro, and others. Though Baldridge claimed that the native uprising drove him off of Île Sainte-Marie around July 1697, Glover's will was dated September 1697, leaving to his three sons on

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and

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"all my silver and gold, coyned and in dust"; the will was proved in 1700.

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