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Andrew Wilson and the Porteous Riot

Pittenweem, Fife

A smuggler's hanging that sparked a riot in Edinburgh.

In 1736 the smuggler Andrew Wilson robbed a customs officer at Pittenweem to get back goods that had been seized. He was hanged in Edinburgh's Grassmarket.

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When
1736
Where
56.2120, -2.7250
Group
Pirates

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Pittenweem is a fishing village on the East Neuk of Fife.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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