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: "Baldridge was the cause of that Native uprising and the pirates' deaths, as he had lured a large number of natives from St. Maries onto ships, sold them into slavery to a French island called Mascarine or Mascaron, which treachery of Baldridges the Natives on the Island avenged on those pirates by cutting their throats."