John Gow

John Gow
Bornc. 1698
Wick, Caithness
DiedJune 11, 1725 (aged 26–27)
Piratical career
TypePirate
Years active1724–1725

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.

  1. ^ The Newgate Calendar wrongly asserts that Gow was hanged on 11 August 1729.[according to whom?]
  2. ^ Johnson, Charles (1725). The History and Lives of All the Most Notorious Pirates and Their Crews. London.