I think he likely came from Mullins.

in 1718, Edward Teach is killed in battle at Ocracoke Inlet, ending the reign of the dreaded pirate known as Blackbeard.

Teach had recently obtained a pardon from North Carolina Governor Charles Eden and settled in the town of Bath. He spent the summer of 1718 traveling between his home there and his sloop Adventure, anchored off Ocracoke. By September, rumors began stirring that he had returned to piracy, causing Virginia Gov. Alexander Spotswood to grow uneasy.

Spotswood outfitted two sloops and sent them south under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard, to capture the pirate.

Maynard and his sloops, Ranger and Jane, moved into position in the channel approaching Blackbeard and the Adventure. Having been entertaining guests the night before, Blackbeard was caught off-guard by the attack.

Thinking quickly, he countered by firing a broadside that decimated the sloops, killing many of Maynard’s men and knocking the Ranger out of the fight completely. Maynard ordered his remaining men into the hold below deck and told them to be ready to fight.

As the Jane drew near, grappling hooks sailed across from Adventure and lashed the two ships together. Blackbeard was the first over the rail, leading his pirates aboard. Seeing the deck of the Jane nearly empty, they charged at Maynard, at which time his remaining crew burst forth from the hold and began vicious hand-to-hand combat with the pirates.

Maynard and Blackbeard came together and drew their pistols, firing at one another. Blackbeard was struck, but nonetheless drew his cutlass and with a powerful stroke, broke Maynard’s sword. The two battled across the blood-soaked deck, and as Maynard drew back to fire again, Blackbeard moved in for an attack but was grievously wounded in the neck by another member of the Jane.

Fatally injured, he was then jumped upon and killed by several more of Maynard’s crew, with the finishing blow cutting off his head. The infamous pirate’s body was dumped overboard into the Inlet, and his head was hung from the bowsprit of the Jane.

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Nov 23, 2021, 2:48 PM

https://www.postandcourier.com/berkeley-independent/news/historians-blackbeard-the-pirate-a-native-of-goose-creek/article_9c397fe1-36c1-5ab2-a468-3c7fd03df03d.html

Historians: Blackbeard the pirate a native of Goose Creek

Let Summerville have its sweet tea. Goose Creek may have an even sweeter claim: birthplace of the famous Blackbeard the pirate.

Let Summerville have its sweet tea. Goose Creek may have an even sweeter claim: birthplace of the famous Blackbeard the pirate.

There are a lot of unknowns about the legendary – but also historical – character of Blackbeard the pirate, but historians say they’ve uncovered strong, though circumstantial, evidence that the man who would become Blackbeard was born and raised in Goose Creek.

The topic of Blackbeard’s Goose Creek heritage will be discussed during a free event 2 p.m. Aug. 27 at Goose Creek City Hall. Historian Kevin Duffus of North Carolina will host the lecture.

Goose Creek Mayor Michael Heitzler said he’s excited but not surprised by Blackbeard’s connection to his city. Heitzler is also the city’s leading historian.

“If you know anything about early South Carolina history then you know there’s a clear connection between the Goose Creek leadership and pirates,” Heitzler said.

The men who led much of the colony were known as the Goose Creek Men and they were among the first settlers in Charleston, coming from Barbados, according to Heitzler.

Heitzler said these men traded with pirates, and he is working on a new book about these early leaders called Goose Creek Men: Founders of South Carolina.

These early settlers were “second sons,” sons who were not born first in a family and therefore were not entitled to a family’s inheritance. And there is a strong link between those early settlers’ second sons and piracy, Heitzler said.

Duffus said that an early book about Blackbeard said he was Edward Teach of Bristol, England, but that book was full of errors about the pirate and there is no evidence of that birthplace except in that book.

“Blackbeard’s origins and really his motivations for becoming a pirate are really one of the great mysteries of colonial American history,” Duffus said.

Duffus said he would explain his stronger evidence for Blackbeard’s birthplace in his Aug. 27 lecture.

“There’s fairly conclusive evidence,” Duffus said.

Heitzler said the city may look into touting the city’s link to Blackbeard — which he said is more factual than Summerville’s claim to sweet tea (how about that shot across the bow?).