John Coxon | |
|---|---|
| Piratical career | |
| Type | Buccaneer (Pirate) |
| Allegiance | None |
| Years active | 1677–1682 1683–1684 168?–1688 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Base of operations | Spanish Main |
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]
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]