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Dutch privateer , corsair and slave trader for the Dutch West India Company....... He was in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company until he was caught and convicted for smuggling slaves in areas where the WIC had the sole patent for this "business". Later on he captained the ship the Kater. As captain of the ship St. Pieter he transported slaves to Curaçao and the Spanish harbours in the Caribbean. In 1660 he was active as a privateer on board the ship Sinjoor. The records show that he was among the survivors of a ship called the Zeelandia. The ship had sunk in the area of the West Indies. Later on he was trading slaves again and applied for a captancy on board the ship Middelburg of the WIC.
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Jacob Janssen van den Bergh unknown 1660
1660 unknown
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, ... 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 ... Cornelius Corneliszoon Jol 1597 1620 173 1641, Oct 31 a 17th-Century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years'... Robert Searle unknown 1650 175 unknown one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is kn...
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