Edward Teach 

Truely no pirate is more infamous than Captain Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. The tales of his flaming beard and long lasting evasion have cemented him into folklore forever. Around 1717 Governor William Keith of the Delaware and Pennsylvania colonies, issued a warrant for Blackbeard's arrest due to rumors that his ship Queen Annes Revenge was stationed in the Delaware Bay. During this time, Blackbeard was accused of capturing multiple merchant ships headed to Philadelphia with his partner, Stede Bonnett. His position in the Delaware Bay was a strategic placement to intercept vessels traveling the trading routes. Blackbeard sailed on to the Carolinas shortly after this ordeal. The Governors of the colonies were enraged and kept the fire under the search for the pirate. November in 1718 proved the end of Blackbeard,  he was defeated near Oracoke Island, North Carolina by British naval Lieutenant Robert Maynard.  Maynard reportedly sailed back to Virginia with Blackbeard fastened to the mast and as a warning to those who might consider piracy a profitable career, Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood had Blackbeard’s head mounted on a pike along the edge of the Hampton river — a location later christened Blackbeard’s Point. Rumor had it that Blackbeard's head was made into a silver lined punch bowl. The article below from the Vermont journal in 1792 seemed to think this theory true.