Junders Plunkett

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Junders Plunkett (31 January 1681- c. March 1722) better know as the Valid Point was a notorious Dutch pirate in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Junders most famous vessel was the Valid Point in which Junders earned his nick name Valid Point.
Early life
Junders was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1681. His father was a privateer for the Dutch Navy. Junders never attended school but was put into the Dutch Navy in 1693 and learned his sea faring knowledge there. Junders was always kept as a seaman in his time at the Dutch Navy. Believing the navy was holding him back so he left at the age of 19.
Journey into pirate life
Junders left the Dutch Navy in 1700 and joined a pirate crew in Bristol. He sailed with an unkown pirate crew on an unnamed vessel (this would later become the Valid Point). Junders was promoted to first mate in 1707 after his great work was appreciated by the the Captain, Johnson. Junders stayed as first mate until Johnson began taxing the men for his own gains. Junders and the crew called a mutiny and marooned Johnson on an uncharted island some where in the Caribbean Sea.
Junders, the Valid Point
Junders was named Captain of the recently named Valid Point. He begun raiding settlements in the Caribbean and earned a reputation as the Valid Point after he punched the Captain of a British ship with his set of Brass Knuckles in which he named Junders Plunkett's Valid Points.
Junders and his crew sailed the Caribbean and built his treasure booty to the point he could no longer carry it on the ship. He and his crew set out for an uncharted island, (The same in which Captain Johnson was marooned on) and from his crew's accounts, buried it in a three chests wrapped in the Dutch Flag with a Skull and Crossbones printed on it.
Death
Junders sailed away from the island and journied to Jamaica. On route, the same Captain he had punched, tracked down and stopped the Valid Point. The two crews fought until Junders was the only member of the Valid Point left. He was taken to Jamaica and was convicted of piracy. He was hung, decapitated and his body was cremated. His head was locked in a tiny chest and buried in a cemetry.
Legacy
Junders Plunkett was parodied in Bethesda Studio's Fallout 3. He is depicted as a raider who has killed someone of authority and uses a set of brass knuckles named Junders Plunkett's Valid Points
Refrences
1. Beal, Clifford (2007). Quelch's Gold: Piracy, Greed, and Betrayal in Colonial New England. Praeger. p. 243. ISBN 0-275-99407-4.
2. Cindy Vallar. "Pirates & Privateers: the History of Maritime Piracy - Modern Piracy 2005 update". Cindyvallar.com. http://www.cindyvallar.com/modern2005.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-18.
3. ["From Pirate Coast To Trucial". http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197306/from.pirate.coast.to.trucial.htm.]
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5,http://en. .org/wiki/Plunkett

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