Dixie Bull (also called Dixey Bull) was approximately born around 1611 in Huntingdon, England and there are sparse records of his time before pirating. One such account states he may have at one time in his youth learned the trade from his older brother from 1627 as a skinner. In this period of his life relocated to Boston in 1632 with a deed for land and permission to sail the coast to promote trade with the local tribes with an emphasis on beaver pelts. On one such voyage for trade was accosted by a French contingent to which his vessel and all items were stolen. This awakened the need to retaliate so when he returned to Boston gather men and began his life as a pirate with the intention of regaining what was taken and for a time only selected English ships.

His legend grew and not for the better after a raid on Pemaquid in 1632 as it was considered a hub for fur trading. This was quite unusual for a pirate to lay siege to a town rather than ships at sea he plundered everything of value. Little is known after that even and some accounts were, he buried what was taken on Damariscove Island and Cushing Island in Casco Bay, Maine. Additions theories were he returned to England, and even he was eventually caught and hanged as a pirate but whatever is true since he did not return to Boston his sister Susan Kendricks née Bull was given his holdings in 1656.


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