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Captain Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains a mystery. No record exists of a captain by this name, and "Captain Charles Johnson" is generally considered a pen name for one of London's writer-publishers. Some scholars have suggested that the author was actually Daniel Defoe, but this is disputed. (From Wikipedia) More about Charles Johnson:
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| | Books by Charles Johnson: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c.; To Which Is Added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates, Interspersed With Several Remarkable Tryals of the Most Notorious Malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London (work often attributed to Defoe; Birmingham: Printed by R. Walker, 1742), contrib. by Daniel Defoe (multiple formats at archive.org)- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: A General History of the Pyrates, From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time (title page names author as Charles Johnson, but work often attributed to Defoe; second edition; London: T. Warner, 1724)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: The History of the Pyrates (successor volume to "A General History of the Pyrates", credited to Johnson but often attributed to Defoe; London: T. Woodward, 1728) (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: Lives of the Most Remarkable Female Robbers (extracts from "A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen"; London: A. Lemoine, 1801) (multiple formats at Google)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: Pirates: The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates (London: J. Cape, 1921), illust. by Claud Lovat Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: Pirates: The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates (New York: R.M. McBride and Co., 1922), illust. by Claud Lovat Fraser
Additional books by Charles Johnson in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: The buccaneers and marooners of America; being an account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of certain notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main / ed. by Howard Pyle. (T.F. Unwin, 1891), also by A. O. Exquemelin and Howard Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: The buccaneers and marooners of America. Being an account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of certain notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main. (T. Fisher Unwin;, 1891), also by A. O. Exquemelin, Howard Pyle, and Charles Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: The Complete Newgate calendar; being Captain Charles Johnson's General history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers and account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates, 1734; Captain Alexander Smith's Compleat history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen, foot-pads, shop-lifts and cheats, 1719; The Tyburn chronicle, 1768; The malefactors' register, 1796; George Borrow's Celebrated trials, 1825; The Newgate calendar, by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 1826; Camden Pelham's Chronicles of crime, 1841; etc. (Privately printed for the Navarre Society limited, 1926), also by G. T. Crook, John L. Rayner, Camden Pelham, Andrew Knapp, George Borrow, and Alexander Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: General history of the pirates (University of South Carolina Press, 1972), also by Daniel Defoe and Manuel Schonhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731: Leben und thaten der berümtesten strassen-und seeräuber, taschendiebe und betrüger in Grossbritanien. (Baumgärtner, 1817) (page images at HathiTrust)
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