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Beaver Beacon republishes a 1908 account of an alleged lake pirate's capture

Also Pirate Captured · Capture of Alleged Pirate

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TypeEvent
Date1908-06
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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1908-06
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Modern era
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Summary

The July 2008 Beaver Beacon’s historical column reprinted a Charlevoix Courier account of the revenue cutter Tuscarora pursuing the yacht Wanderer and arresting its owner, John Seavy, on an alleged piracy charge.

Evidence limits

This is a later newspaper reprint of a historical account. The arrest and the piracy allegation should be checked against the cited July 1908 Courier issue.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, July 2008, "Pirate Captured."
    Reprints a July 1, 1908 Charlevoix Courier front-page account of the revenue cutter Tuscarora's pursuit of the yacht Wanderer and the arrest of its owner, John Seavy, on an alleged piracy charge. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held July issue scan confirms the historical reprint.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon republishes a 1908 account of an alleged lake pirate's capture”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-july-1908-pirate-capture/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2008, "Pirate Captured." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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