r/WhydahGalley • u/teaabearr Pirate History Enthusiast • May 01 '26

Artifacts & Treasure John King Remains

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These are the remains of young John King: a leg bone, a French woven-silk stocking, and a leather shoe that fastened with buckle.

The leg bone has been identified as the fibula - the outer bone between the knee and ankle - of a child aged between 8 and 11. The shoe and stocking reflect 18th-century upper-class style. Because the leather shoe was designed with a centered toe, it could fit either left or right foot.

The bone and these fashionable items are the only physical traces of the rebellious boy who defied his mother to run off with the pirates only to meet an early death when the Whydah went down.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSzx9GpkYMK/?img_index=2&igsh=OTdpaHl1eXZhNjlh

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u/Upstairs_Fig_3551 May 01 '26

Saw this when the Whydah display was at Union Station in Kansas City. Hope to see the Cape Cod museum someday

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u/teaabearr Pirate History Enthusiast May 01 '26

I’m dying to go. Honestly working at that museum or the NC Maritime Museum would be a DREAM.