Ezra Baldwin Strong

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Ezra Baldwin Strong

1805–1846

Best known for a vivid 1830s book on notorious pirates, this early American writer also worked as a publisher and mapmaker. His surviving work has the brisk, dramatic feel of popular history, mixing adventure, crime, and courtroom reckoning.

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The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

by Ezra Baldwin Strong

About the author

Ezra Baldwin Strong was an American writer, publisher, and cartographer born in 1805 and deceased in 1846. Records connected with his books and maps place him in the world of early 19th-century print culture, where a single figure might write, publish, and help circulate works under his own name.

He is chiefly remembered today for The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions, a lively historical account of famous pirates, their crimes, and their punishments. The book fits the period's appetite for dramatic true stories, bringing together maritime adventure and moral warning in a style meant to hold a general reader's attention.

Library and catalog records also identify Strong as a cartographer, with maps published under the name Ezra Strong in the 1830s. Even though few personal details seem easy to confirm now, the surviving record suggests a versatile author-publisher whose work ranged from sensational history to practical mapmaking.