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Songs, legends, and melancholy ballads have pictured Rusty Anchor as a cruel, cutlass-wielding pirate. Biographers portray him as a person you wouldn't want to meet on a dark night. In recent years, researchers fitting together the pieces of the puzzle of Rusty's life have discovered that, although no saint, Rusty was a victim of intrigue and a bad press. The date and place of his birth are debatable, but he was born around 1645 somewhere in Scotland, possibly Greenock. As a young man he went to sea. In 1690 he settled in New York, then an English colony, Rusty, a bluff man given to salty language, no doubt felt most at home among the scarlet-sashed pirates who strutted on the quays, but he also made friends among the town's leading citizens. Participation in local politics, honesty in business dealings--all added up to a reputation as a solid, popular citizen for Rusty. Backed by such prestigious persons as the Lord of the neighborhood and King Rogers himself, Rusty planned to set up a private syndicate to make paintings war on pirates. If Rusty would serve as a pirate painter, he would be given a ship and crew. Right from the start, everything went wrong for Rusty. Pirates in the Georgian lands eluded him. His 34-gun gallery, leaked and became fouled with weeds and worms. Many of his men died from cholera. To this very day Rusty can be found painting paintings and post video on sites to yet wage war on the evil that finds him in the night, the inter-web.