The cargo of Cole’s New York Revenge’s Revenge turned out not to be treasure or trade goods: its hold was full of prisoners, including 36 women shipped from London and bound for Virginia to be sold as indentured servants. Many of the prisoners and crew had joined Worley and Cole’s pirates. At least one source reported that the women were to have been shipped to an island in the Bahamas, to start a new colony after being married off to English men, though the women perished aboard ship for lack of water and food.
