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Pirates born active died
unknown 1650s-1660 unknown
Buccaneer.
With a few other buccaneers in their stronghold at New Providence Island in 1660, withstood an attack by a Spanish fleet for five days. The three English captains, Stanley, Sir Thomas Whetstone, and Major Smith, were carried to Panama and there cast into a dungeon and bound in irons for seventeen months.
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Captain Stanley unknown 1650
1660 unknown
Jean Le Vasseur unknown 1642 1652 unknown Philip Ras unknown 1652 1655 unknown Captured several English ships as both a corsair and privateer during the First Anglo-Dutch War..... Bartholomeus de Jager unknown 1655 1655 unknown Dutch corsair active against the Portuguese. He attacked a small merchant fleet at Fernando Noron... Cornelis Janszoon van de Velde unknown 1655 1655 unknown Dutch corsair active near the Antillen, he was briefly associated with Bartholomeus de Jager........ Willem Albertse Blaeuvelt unknown 1643 1656 unknown From 1643 to 1656 we find many references to the Capetyn in the documentary history of the Colony... Rupert unknown 1640 1659 unknown After an adventurous life as a soldier on the Continent, he sailed from Ireland in 1648 with seve... Vincenzo Alessandri unknown 1650 1659 1657 Originally an Italian Knight of Malta, Alessandri became a notorious buccaneer. He worked mostly ... Captain Thomas Harding unknown 1650 1659 unknown In 1653 he captured a rich prize, a Barbadoes vessel. For this he was tried for piracy at Boston. Captain Edward Hull unknown 1650 1659 unknown Commanded the Swallow "frigott" in which he sailed from Boston in 1653, and captured several Fren... Jan Naelhout unknown 1650 1659 unknown Naelhout the elder was a privateer who served the Dutch West Indies Company until 1657. In 1657 h... Leijn Pické unknown 1650 1659 unknown Dutch privateer who managed to capture at least 12 English vessels during the "First English War"... Mathijs Quars unknown 1650 1659 unknown Dutch privateer in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company. In August 1656 he managed to cap... Thomas Veal unknown 1650 1659 unknown One of four pirates to seek refuge in the Lynn Woods, Thomas Veal avoided capture by hiding in Du... Theunis Post unknown 1650 1660s 9 unknown Captain of a privateer in 1654. In 1660 he served on a merchant ship to the West-Indies. During t... Captain De L'Isle unknown 1659 1661 unknown Koxinga 1624, Aug 24 1646 1662 1662, Jun 23 a Chinese military leader who was born in Hirado, Japan to the Chinese merchant/pirate Zheng Zhil... Abraham Blauvelt 1600 ca 1630 1663 1663 ca a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ... Gustav Skytte 1637 1657 1663 1663, Apr 21 a Swedish nobleman and pirate. Born as the child of Jacob Skytte and Anna Bjelkenstjerna, he beca... Cornelis Evertsen the Elder 1610, Aug 4 1626 1666 1666, Jun 11 a Dutch admiral. In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a private... Edward Mansvelt unknown 1659 1666 1666 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and buccaneer who, at one time, was acknowledged as an informal chie... Major Samuel Smith unknown 1640 1669 unknown Buccaneer. At one time a buccaneer with the famous Mansfield. In 1641 he was sent, by the Governo... Philippe Bequel unknown 1650 1669 unknown a 17th-century French privateer. At the request of Deschamps of Rausset, Bequel would use the sma... Jacquotte Delahaye unknown 1650 1669 unknown a probably fictitious pirate, or buccaneer, active in the Caribbean sea. Alongside Anne Dieu-le-V... Sir Christopher Myngs 1625 1650 1669 1666 English naval officer and pirate. He first appears prominently as the captain of the Elisabeth, ... Robert Searle unknown 1650 1669 unknown one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is kn... Christina Anna Skytte 1643 1650 1669 1677 a Swedish baroness and pirate. From 1657 onward, her brother, baron Gustav Skytte, secrecy manage... Bartolomeu Portugues unknown 1655 1669 unknown a Portuguese buccaneer who attacked Spanish shipping in the late 1660s; he also established one o... Roche Braziliano 1630, Feb 27 1654 1671 1671+ a Dutch pirate born in the town of Groningen. His pirate career lasted from 1654 until his disapp... Moise Vauquelin unknown 1650 1672 unknown An officer under François l'Ollonais, he also had a partnership with Pierre Le Picard. In his l... Lawrence Prince 1630 ca 1659 1672 1717 a 17th-century Dutch buccaneer and an officer under Captain Sir Henry Morgan. Captain Prince was ... Grillo Diego unknown 1620 1673 unknown Spanish but worked for the French, Hanged Diego Grillo unknown 1639 1673 1673 There are relatively few historical records of Diego el mulato Grillo, and they are not all consi... Daniel Johnson 1629 1657 1675 1675 an English buccaneer who, serving under buccaneers as Moyse Van Vin and Pierre le Picard, sailed ... Cornelis Evertsen the Younger 1628, Apr 16 1648 1678 1679, Sep 20 a Dutch Admiral from the 17th century. Cornelis was the son of Lieutenant-Admiral Johan Evertsen ... Isaac Rochussen 1631 1650 1679 1710 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and privateer during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch War. His captu... Pierre Le Grand unknown 1620 or 1660 1680 unknown a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex... Captain Nicholas Van Hoorn 1635 ca 1655 1683 1683, Jun a merchant sailor, privateer and pirate. He was born in the Netherlands and died near Veracruz af... Basil Ringrose unknown 1653 1686 unknown surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific... Sir James Houblon 1629, Jul 1654 1698 1700, Oct an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held appointments in ... Anne Dieu-Le-Veut 1661, Aug 28 1650 1704 1710, Jan 11 a French Pirate. Alongside Jacquotte Delahaye she was one of very few female Buccaneers. She was ...
