The Charlton Street Gang was a New York street gang and river pirates during the mid nineteenth century. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Piracy is Robbery committed at sea or sometimes on shore without a commission from a sovereign Nation (as distinct from Privateering The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar
The Charlton Street Gang was one of the earliest river pirates raiding small cargo ships in the North River of New York Harbor during post-Civil War period of the 1860s. This article refers to the North River the lower section of the Hudson New York Harbor, a geographic term refers collectively to the rivers bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA was completed in 1869 With the well protected ocean liners and major shipping vessels reserved for the Manhattan Westside dockyards however, the gang began to raid merchant shipping upriver. An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one Seaport to another along regular long-distance Maritime routes according to a schedule
Under the leadership of Sadie the Goat, the gang stole a sloop in 1869 and soon began raiding merchant shipping and raiding homes along the Hudson River from the Harlem River as far as Poughkeepsie and Albany, New York. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami See also Geography and environment of New York City The Harlem River is a navigable tidal Strait in New York City, USA that Poughkeepsie (pəˈkɪpsiː is a City in New York, USA and serves as the County seat of Dutchess County, located in the Hudson Albany is the Capital of the State of New York and the County seat of Albany County. Flying the flag of the Jolly Roger, the gang was extremely successful soon becoming known for kidnapping wealthy men, women, and children for ransom. The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various Flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates The flag most usually identified as the Jolly Roger today According to newspapers of the period Sadie the Goat allegedly had forced several male victims to walk the plank. "Walk the plank" redirects here For other uses see Walk the Plank. However after several victims had been murdered by the gang local Hudson Valley residents formed a vigilante group and, after several members were killed in a series of violent battles, the gang decided to return to the New York waterfront where they returned to street crime eventually dissolving by the end of the decade. For the Magazine, see Hudson Valley (magazine Street crime is a loose term for criminal offences taking place in public places
Resources
- Sifakis, Carl. Encyclopedia of American Crime, New York, Facts on File Inc. , 1982
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