Thomas Magott (

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1679–1680) was a minor pirate and

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best known for joining a group of

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s in assaulting Spanish Puerto Bello.

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In late 1679 Magott met with captains John Coxon,

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e, Robert Allison, and Cornelius Essex. His vessel, the smallest one in the fleet, was an unarmed 20-man, 14-ton

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. Using Coxon's forged privateering commission the fleet sailed to Puerto Bello, and alongside the two French buccaneers Rose and Bournano, sacked the city in February 1680. After refitting at Bocas del Toro and joining with reinforcements they marched overland to attack

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, but “capt. Allisson and capt. Maggott being sickly were unable to march” and remained behind along with a skeleton crew to guard the ships. Some of Allison's and Magott's men marched under Coxon, and “had each of them a red flag,” “most of them … armed with fuzee, pistol, and hanger.” Magott himself played no further part in their adventures.

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