However, according to William Kidd: "Baldridge was the occasion of that Insurrection of the Natives and the death of the pirates, for that having inveigled a great number of the natives of St. Maries, men, women and children, on board a ship or ships he carryed and sold them for slaves to a French Island called Mascarine or Mascaron, which treachery of Baldridges the Natives on the Island revenged on those pirates by cutting their throats."
William Kidd's account describes how Baldridge's actions led to the Native uprising and the death of the pirates. He had tricked natives into slavery, which was a betrayal that the Natives on Mascarine or Mascaron avenged upon the pirates.