Blackbeard is said to have at least 12 wives scattered from the Lesser
Antilles to New England. It was also rumored that he had a wife and son
living in England, though the truth of his early life was never known.
During the time of the second amnesty period, he married Mary Ormond, the 16
year old daughter of a nearby plantation owner in
Bath
Town. He built a home
on Plum Point facing Old Town Creek (now Bath Creek), right across the creek
from Tobias Knight, Secretary of North Carolina and Governor Eden's
right-hand man.
Source: BLACKBEARD, THE FIERCEST PIRATE OF ALL
written by Norman C. Pendered:
Published by: Times Printing Co., Inc., Manteo, NC, 1975
