“Captain Joshua Wayne, a free-spirited adventurer who seized opportunities wherever he could find them… “
Jessica Fletcher
“He was a pirate… We’ve always been very proud of old Captain Wayne and his Yankee gumption.”
Lois Hoey
A Foundered Founder of Cabot Cove
Cabot Cove loved Captain Wayne as a colorful Yankee outlaw. Golden Age pirate lore is very popular in the United States, and an 18th century privateer like Captain Wayne would have been close enough to the real thing to inspire the collective imagination of a community.
Cabot Cove’s annual Founders Day celebration (S1 E7: “Hit, Run and Homicide”) is a moment of reckoning for the community. Does Jessica tell the rest of Cabot Cove that Wayne fought as a loyalist during the American Revolutionary War? It appears this fact may have shipwrecked his legacy as a founding father. Cabot Cove moves on to other historical heroes later in the series.
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