From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), 
compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late 
Phinehas Merrill, Esq.,
Printed by C. Norris & Co. , Exeter, NH, ©1817, pg 51

Part I - General View- History

1632- During this year the coast was alarmed by reports of a pirate, one Dixy Bull, who 
with a company of fifteen, being employed in the Indian trade at the eastward, had taken 
several boats and dismantled the fort at Pemaquid:  Capt. Neal, collecting a small band, 
equipped four pinnaces and shallops from the Piscataqua and manned them with forty 
men, which was all the force that could be spared from the plantations; this fleet, after 
uniting with a barge containing twenty men from Boston, sailed for Pemaquid, but were 
forced by contrary winds and bad weather to return without meeting with the enemy.  This 
was the first naval armament equipped from New Hampshire.  The pirates having 
proceeded further eastward, arrived afterwards in England, where Bull met with his just 
punishment.

Submitted by T.C. Parziale 5/30/00
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