# Samuel Axe > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Samuel_Axe > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Samuel_Axe.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Axe > Source revision: 1197646348 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|17th-century English privateer}} {{For|the Burn Notice character|Sam Axe}} '''Samuel Axe''' was an English [privateer](/source/privateer) in Dutch service during the early 17th century. Serving with English forces in the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands) during the [Dutch War of Independence](/source/Dutch_War_of_Independence), Axe traveled to the British [Providence Island colony](/source/Providence_Island_colony) in the western [Caribbean Sea](/source/Caribbean_Sea), where he assisted in the construction of its central fortress in 1629. However, after a disagreement with [Daniel Elfrith](/source/Daniel_Elfrith) (possibly over the capture of Spanish and Portuguese slavers during the early 1630s{{cite web |url=http://bz.llano.net/gowen/melungia/article1.htm |title=Archived copy |website=bz.llano.net |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005062744/http://bz.llano.net/gowen/melungia/article1.htm |archive-date=5 October 2010 |url-status=dead}}), Axe left the island with [Abraham Blauvelt](/source/Abraham_Blauvelt) and [Sussex Camock](/source/Sussex_Camock) and sailed for [Honduras](/source/Honduras) in 1633. In 1635, he accepted Dutch [letters of marque](/source/letters_of_marque) despite being in the employ of the [Providence Island Company](/source/Providence_Island_Company) and, from 1636 to 1641, acted as a privateer for the English trading company. Although briefly returning to Providence to assist the island's defense against Spanish attacks in 1636, Axe had a successful privateering career delivering a captured prize, with cargo including gold, silver, jewels, indigo and cochineal, as he returned to England in May 1640. Following the capture of Providence by the Spanish in 1641, the Providence Island Company was dissolved. Escaping to [St. Kitts](/source/St._Kitts), Axe later took part in a privateering expedition under Captain [William Jackson](/source/William_Jackson_(pirate)) to the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies) from 1642 to 1645, in which the privateers managed to capture [Kingston, Jamaica](/source/Kingston%2C_Jamaica). ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. ''Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. {{ISBN|978-0-521-55835-8}} *Rogozinski, Jan ''Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend''. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. {{ISBN|978-0-306-80722-0}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071116145725/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/5213/privata.htm Pirates and Privateers] by Rick Vermunt *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081227060943/http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/pirate-fame.html Famous Historical Pirates] {{Pirates}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Axe, Samuel}} Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Year of death unknown Category:English privateers Category:English military personnel of the Eighty Years' War Category:Isla de Providencia people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Samuel Axe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Axe) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Axe?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.