John Coxon (pirate)
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Captain John Coxon, sometimes referred to as John Coxen, was a late-seventeenth-century buccaneer who terrorized the Spanish Main. Coxon was one of the most famous of the Brethren of the Coast, a loose consortium of pirates and privateers. Coxon lived during the Buccaneering Age of Piracy.[1]
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Piratical career | |
Type | Buccaneer (Pirate) |
Allegiance | None |
Years active | 1677–1682 1683–1684 168?–1688 |
Rank | Captain |
Base of operations | Spanish Main |
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Coxon's ship, a vessel of eighty tons that carried eight guns and a crew of ninety-seven men, is lost to date, with no traces of its name anywhere.[2]