One of two flags reported to have been flown by Black Sam Bellamy, known as the Robin hood of pirates, by Thomas Blanket, one of the eight pirates on trial after the wreck of the Whydah in a storm. It was a flag that seems to have been common to members of the Flying Gang of Nassau and was possibly flown before Bellamy captured the Whydah. “They spread a large black Flag, with a death‘s Head and Bones a-cross.” The Trials of Eight Persons Indicted for Piracy, Boston 1718.