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Pirates born active died
1782, Feb 1 1810-1860 1870, Feb 17
a Thousand Islands smuggler, river pirate, and War of 1812 American privateer. His most famous undertaking, the one that earned him his pirate moniker, was when he and his crew set out to capture the passenger steamer, the Sir Robert Peel. They intended to use the Peel to transport rebel troops to Canada.
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Bill Johnston 1782, Feb 1 1810
1860 1870, Feb 17
Grambo unknown 1800 1811 1811 Was "boss" of Barataria, the smugglers' stronghold off the Island of Grande Terre, near Louisiana... Gaspard unknown 1812 1812 unknown Ex-Corsair Dominique You 1775 1802 1814 1830, Nov 14 a privateer, soldier, and politician. Jean Lafitte's most trusted lieutenant, and rumored to have... Joshua Barney unknown 1759 1818 unknown an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War. He late... Hezekiah Frith 1763 1790 1819 1848 an 18th-century British ship owner with the reputation of a "gentleman privateer", who engaged in... Vincenzo Gambi 1775 ca 1805 1819 1819/20 a 19th-century Italian pirate. He was one of the most violent and bloodthirsty men in the Gulf of... Ibrahim Ameer unknown 1810 1819 unknown An admiral of an Arabian fleet of Red Sea pirates. In 1816 he captured four British merchant vess... William Holmes unknown 1810 1819 unknown Edward Rosewain unknown 1810 1819 unknown Sao Cheng I unknown 1810 1819 unknown South China Sea, commanded either 5 or 6 squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 sma... Hippolyte Bouchard 1780, Jan 15 1817 1819 1843, Jan 4 a French Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his first... Barthelemy Lafon 1769 1790 1820 1820, Sep 29 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap... Captain Biciaki unknown 1820 1820 1825 ca operated in the eastern Mediterranean. ......
Greek pirate of the eastern Mediterranean.
V�... Jose Gaspar 1756 1783 1821 1821 a purported Spanish pirate, the "last of the Buccaneers," who is claimed to have raided the west ... Louis-Michel Aury 1788 ca 1802 1821 1821, Aug 30 a French privateer operating in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean during the early 19th century. A... Pierre Lafitte 1770 1803 1821 1821 a privateer in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmit... Luis Brion 1782, Jul 6 1806 1821 1821, Sep 27 a military officer who fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence. He rose to the rank of admir... Benito Bonito 1780 1818 1821 1821 Pirate who supposedly hid his treasures of Lima in the cliffs of Australia, or in Coco Island. William Howard Allen 1790, Jul 8 1808 1822 1822, Nov a Lieutenant in the United States navy, and a native of the city of Hudson. While a child, he w... Captain Baker unknown 1810 1822 unknown One of Gasparilla's gang up to 1822, when they were broken up by the United States Navy. His favo... Peter Heaman 1787 1821 1822 1822, Jan 9 A French pirate, born in 1787. Sailed from Gibraltar in May, 1821, as mate on board the schooner ... Renato Beluche 1780, Dec 15 1803 1823 1860, Oct 4 a Venezuelan merchant and privateer who played many roles in the turbulent world of the 19th-cent... Captain Baltizar unknown 1810 1823 unknown A terror to all shipping in the Gulf of Mexico in the early part of the nineteenth century. Broug... Breti Gullimillit unknown 1810 1823 1823 Taken with other South American pirates by H.M. sloop Tyne, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1... Roberto Cofresi 1791, Jun 17 1818 1823 1825, Mar 29 a pirate from Puerto Rico. Despite his birth into a noble family, the political and economic diff... Domingo Eucalla unknown 1820 1823 1823, Feb 7 A negro. Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, on February 7th, 1823. Made a moving harangue to the specta... Johanna Hard 1789, Dec 3 1823 1823 unknown Sweden's last pirate; in 1823, recently widowed Hård, a farm owner on Vrångö Island, was arres... Jean Lafitte 1776 ca 1803 1826 1826 ca a French-American smuggler, privateer, pirate and slaver in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th ... Jacque Alexander Tardy 1767 1817 1827 1827, Jun 15 an unsuccessful and atypical pirate who usually poisoned his victims. Most known for his last act... Diabolito unknown 1810 1829 1823 a 19th-century Cuban pirate. One of the more violent of the era, he actively engaged the United S... Felix Barbeito unknown 1820 1829 1827, Aug 17 A member of Jacque Tardy's gang on the Crawford. Captured and hanged.
Lieutenant Bolivar unknown 1820 1829 unknown This Portuguese pirate was first officer to Captain Jonnia. He was a stout, well-built man of swa... Jose Hilario Casaris unknown 1820 1829 1827, Aug 17 A member of Jacque Tardy's gang on the Crawford. Captured and hanged. George James Davis unknown 1820 1829 1830, Dec 16 Captured, charged with piracy, and convicted. One of the last two final hangings on Execution Doc... Juan Gutterez unknown 1820 1829 1823, Feb 7 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, on February 7th, 1823. Augustus Hernandez unknown 1820 1829 1823 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1823.
Juan Hernandez unknown 1820 1829 1823, Feb 7 Captured with nine other pirates by H.M. sloop-of-war Tyne and taken to Jamaica. Hanged on Februa... La Cata unknown 1820 1829 unknown A most blood-thirsty pirate and one of the last of the West Indian gangs. In 1824, when La Cata w... Manuel Lima unknown 1820 1829 1823 Taken by H.M. sloop Tyne, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in February, 1823. Captain Antonio el Majorcam unknown 1820 1829 unknown At one time an officer in the Spanish Navy. Became a notorious West Indian pirate, but about 1824... Francesco Miguel unknown 1820 1829 1823 Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1823. Jose Morando unknown 1820 1829 1827, Aug 17 A member of Jacque Tardy's gang on the Crawford. Captured and hanged. Pedro Nondre unknown 1820 1829 1823, Feb Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in February, 1823. At the time of execution it was observed that he ... Raga unknown 1820 1829 unknown Chief of the Malay pirates in the Straits of Makassar, Raga took many European ships and beheaded... Captain Raphaelina unknown 1820 1829 unknown Much dreaded by the merchant sailors navigating the South Atlantic. In 1822 he controlled a fleet... William Watts [2] unknown 1820 1829 1830, Dec 16 Captured, charged with piracy, and convicted. One of the last two final hangings on Execution Doc... Captain Mansel Alcantra unknown 1829 1829 unknown a Spanish pirate active in the South Atlantic during the early 19th century. As well as committin... Maria Lindsey 1700 ca 1720 183 1760+ a pirate in the early 18th century who with her husband, Eric Cobham, practiced piracy in the Gul... Henri Caesar 1791 ca 1791 1830 1830 allegedly a 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate. Efforts to find historical evidence of... Captain Benito de Soto 1805, Apr 22 1827 1830 1830, Jan 25 a Galician pirate, and captain of the Burla Negra ("Black Joke"). Benito de Soto was the most not... Robert Dawes unknown 1830 1830 unknown One of the mutineers on the brig Vineyard in 1830. It was the full confession of Dawes that broug... Captain Charles Gibbs 1798, Nov 5 1816 1831 1831, Apr 25 an American pirate who was one of the last active in the Caribbean during the early-19th century ... Thomas Wansley unknown 1831 1831 1831, Feb A negro steward on the brig Vineyard, he mutinied and assisted to murder the captain and mate, af... James Ford 1770? 1799? 1833 1833 an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois at the turn... John Andrew Murrell 1804/6? 1820 1834 1844 a near-legendary bandit operating in the United States, along the Mississippi River, in the mid-n... Don Pedro Gilbert 1800 ca 1832 1834 1835, Jun 11 an early 19th-century pirate, who was one of the few remaining pirates continuing to raid shippin... Atwell unknown 1830 1839 unknown A hand aboard the brig Vineyard in 1830, he took part with Charles Gibbs and others in a mutiny i... Manuel Boyga unknown 1830 1839 1835, Jun A Columbian. One of Captain Pedro Gilbert's crew in the Panda. Hanged at Boston in June, 1835. Manuel Castillo unknown 1830 1839 1835, Jun 11 A Columbian sailor in the schooner Panda . Hanged for piracy at Boston on June 11th, 1835. Edward Church unknown 1830 1839 unknown In 1830 he served in the brig Vineyard, from New Orleans to Philadelphia. Took part in the mutiny... Nicola Costa unknown 1830 1839 unknown One of Captain Gilbert's crew (cabin boy) in the pirate schooner Panda . Bernado De Soto unknown 1830 1839 unknown One of the crew of the schooner Panda that took and plundered the Salem brig Mexican. The ... John Eldridge unknown 1830 1839 unknown Suspected pirate, apprehended with 1,600 pieces of eight, 249 pieces of silver plate, 200 broken ... Antonio Ferrer unknown 1830 1839 unknown One of Captain Gilbert's crew (and cook) in the pirate schooner Panda . Angel Garcia unknown 1830 1839 1835, Jun One of Gilbert's crew in the Panda . Hanged at Boston in June, 1835. Domingo de Guzman unknown 1830 1839 unknown One of Captain Gilbert's crew in the pirate schooner Panda . Don Miguel unknown 1830 1839 unknown In 1830 commanded a squadron of small pirate vessels off the Azores. After seizing a Sardinian br... Juan Montenegro unknown 1830 1839 1835 A Columbian. One of Captain Gilbert's crew in the pirate schooner Panda . Hanged at Boston ... Juan Antonio Portana unknown 1830 1839 unknown One of Captain Pedro Gilbert's crew in the pirate schooner Panda.
Francisco Ruiz unknown 1830 1839 1835, Sep 12 One of Captain Pedro Gilbert's crew and carpenter in the pirate schooner Panda, which plundered t... Captain Vallanueva unknown 1830 1839 unknown A Dominican. Commanded in 1831 a small gaff-topsail schooner, the General Morazan, armed with a b... Jose Velazquez unknown 1830 1839 unknown One of Captain Gilbert's crew in the pirate schooner Panda .
Kazimierz Lux 1780 1795 1846 1846 an officer of the Polish Legions and a pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 19th century.... Sam Hall Lord 1778 1800 1849 1844, Nov 5 one of the most famous buccaneers on the island of Barbados. Sam Lord as he was usually known, am... Captain Tuanku Abbas unknown 1840 1849 unknown a Malayan pirate active in the 1840s and the brother of a rajah of Aceh. He was well known for sp... Hiram Breakes 1745 1760 185 unknown Breakes was the tall, handsome son of the Councilor of the Island of Saba. In 1764, he was appoin... Chui A-poo unknown 1840 1850 1851 a 19th-century Qing Chinese pirate who commanded a fleet of more than 50 junks in the South China... Narciso Lopez 1797, Nov 2 1850 1851 1851, Sep 1 a Venezuelan adventurer and soldier, best known for an expedition aimed at liberating Cuba from S... Eli Boggs 1810 1830 1857 1857 an American pirate, one of the last active ocean-going pirates operating off the coast of China d... Shap Ng-tsai unknown 1845 1859 unknown a Chinese pirate active in the South China Sea from about 1845 to 1859. He was one of the two mos... William Walker 1824, May 8 1852 1860 1860, Sep 12 an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary, who organized several private military e... Nathaniel Gordon 1826, Feb 6 1850 1862 1862, Feb 21 Pirate and slave trader, born in Portland, Maine. Captain Nathaniel Gordon was the first and only... Bully Hayes 1827/29 1850 1877 1877, Mar 31 a notorious American-born ship's captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s and w... Juan Gomez 1781 1790 1889 1900, Jul 13 Brother-in-law of the famous pirate Gasparilla. Died, credited with the great age of 120 years, a...
