Tom'un büyük büyük büyükbabası bir korsandı.
- Tom's great-great-grandfather was a pirate.
16. yüzyılda Akdeniz'de Türk ve İspanyol korsanlar birbirleriyle sık sık mücadele ettiler
- In the sixteenth century Turkish and Spanish pirates often encountered in Mediterranean Sea.
In 1596 and 1597 he bucaneered against Sao Thomi, the Portuguese slaving settlement off the coast of West Africa, and in the Spanish Main.