There is not much evidence of the beginning chronology in the life of Edward Teach (a.k.a Blackbeard) (or Thache, Thatch, and Thack) other than being born possibly in 1680 somewhere in England. One source of information I found was he had siblings and his father was a seaman named Captain Edward Thache, Sr. and after the family migrated to Jamaica his early life was uneventful. Edward himself was determined to follow in his father's trade and become a mariner and eventually himself married and had a child. Adventures on the sea soon turned to piracy when given the opportunity to be part of the crew of Captain Benjamin Hornigold, a known pirate. Teach was made captain of a captured ship thus began his reign upon the ocean and went on to capture and sink more vessels.

Teach seized a French ship the La Concorde used to transport slaves and renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge, sporting 40 guns, and then equipped it with 300 men. It is likely the idea for this moniker was he once enlisted in the Royal Navy during Queen Anne's War. Blackbeard continued his raids on trade ships in parts of the Atlantic coast and Caribbean until a reward was posted for his capture dead or alive. He first accepted a pardon from the king but the call of the excitement of plundering became too strong and returned to his former ways and in 1718 met his fate. In his last battle with British Lieutenant Robert Maynard he was killed and then beheaded thus ending his chapter of terror.