Later Years
Leaving Guayaquil on June 12, he stopped at the Galápagos Islands and Juan Fernández Islands on his return voyage to the American colonies. He reported the discovery of land 600 leagues from the Galápagos at 27°20′S (later referred to as Davis' Land, this may have been Easter Island). He and the Delight arrived in the West Indies in early 1688 and eventually arrived in Philadelphia in May. Although he and Lionel Wafer would be imprisoned for piracy in Virginia for two years, he would eventually return to England in 1690 and successfully managed to have most of his former property and estates returned to him within two years.
He is claimed as one of the earliest buccaneers to have buried treasure on Cocos Island with his flagship, the Bachelor's Delight, in 1684 and 1702. Anchoring in Chatham Bay, he supposedly left behind several chests containing ingots, pieces-of-eight and £300,000 in silver bar and plate taken from settlements in Peru and Chile .
He may or may not have been the same privateer to accompany Captain William Kidd to America after a meeting at St. Mary's Island in 1697.
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