John Gow | |
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| Born | c. 1698 Wick, Caithness |
| Died | June 11, 1725 (aged 26–27) Execution Dock, London |
| Piratical career | |
| Type | Pirate |
| Years active | 1724–1725 |
John Gow (c. 1698–11 June 1725)[1] was a pirate whose short career was immortalised by Charles Johnson in the 1725 work The History and Lives of All the Most Notorious Pirates and Their Crews.[2] Little is known of his life, except from an account by Daniel Defoe, which is often considered unreliable,[according to whom?] the report on his execution, and an account by Mr. Alan Fea, descendant of his captor, published in 1912, almost two centuries after his death.
- ^ The Newgate Calendar wrongly asserts that Gow was hanged on 11 August 1729.[according to whom?]
- ^ Johnson, Charles (1725). The History and Lives of All the Most Notorious Pirates and Their Crews. London.