John Silver

 Long  John Silver (1660 - 1714) was a retired pirate who appeared in season 1 of Pigs and the mafia Wiki subseries Pirate Pigs.

Early life
Not much is known about him, except that he was born on 17th August, 1660 in Cornwall, England.

Sailing with Captain Flint
Sometime in 1680s he met a man called Jim Flint, who at the time had just acquired himself a frigate and was ready to set sail for Mediterranean. John joined him and together they became very good friends for the next 10 years.

In 1692, John, who was a quartermaster and first mate of Flint's ship at that time, noticed that Captain started acting strange. He suspected that Flint had some secrets that he kept. When they stopped at Isla Cruces, Captain went ashore with few crewmates. After they returned, John expected that they would bring back a chest full of gold, instead they brought nothing. During the night, John snuck into captain's cabin and found a map in a locked drawer - it was a map, representing some island, possibly a treasure island. Flint walked into the cabin and found John. They both started dueling with cutlasses and in the end a big battle broke out aboard the ship.

During the battle, Flint cut John in his right leg, causing him to lose it. Afterwards, John managed to kill Flint with a flintlock pistol. Rest of the remaining crew that was on Flint's side fleed, while Silver took over the ship with his band of scoundrels.

Afterwards, John set out to find this treasure island that was represented in Flint's map.

Retirement
It is said that he wrote a book about his hunt for Flint's treasure, though whether anything that was in the book is true or did he even find the treasure is unknown.

In 1703 he decided to retire from life of piracy and went for New Orleans. There, John was taught how to cook like a master. In 1707 he settled down in a small house near Charleston. There he spent rest of his years of retirement up until 1714, when British soldiers captured him in North Charleston and took him to a nearby fortress. There he was approached by Admiral George Westhouse, who proposed an offer to John that he would work as a spy aboard Captain Redbeard's infamous vessel Red Bounty and in return he would be able to kill Redbeard and take all his treasure, along with the ship.

At first, John hesitated to answer yes, he knew that Westhouse could have him hanged for past crimes as a pirate if he were to reject the offer. Therefore, he accepted the offer, thinking that it could be a nice way how we could die in few years - with more riches than any king in the world and a ship of his own. One last thing that Westhouse told him was that he will have to join the crew as a cook and during the voyage will have to make a mutiny at some point to kill Redbeard, afterwards he could have the ship and sail as a privateer for the Royal Navy. On the ship, he would have another ally spy who would show himself soon enough. John shook Westhouse's hand and left the study.

On his way out, John noticed another man sitting outside the study's door and waiting, he ignored the person and went back home. Now he was out of his retirement.