User blog comment:Jim Logan/Timeline of the game/Wiki/@comment-4713152-20111011001305/@comment-3060460-20111011001853

Sammy boy argued this for the past 3 months, Disney says the game(and therefore the wiki) is in the 1740's it shall be. A common explanation for Blackbeard's survival is that BB made a deal with Maynard, and Blackbeard went into hiding, only to emerge in the late 1740's to find the Fountain of Youth.