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| | Jonathan Haraden | unknown | 1745 | | 1803 | unknown |
 | Sumbhajee Angria | unknown | 1729 | | 1746 | 1746 | | | Half-brother of Toolajee Angria and son of Conajee Angria. |  | Eric Cobham | 1700 | 1720 | | 1749 | 1760+ | | | a pirate in the early 18th century who with his wife, Maria Lindsey, practiced piracy in the Gulf... | | Henry Simms | 1716 | 1740 | | 1749 | 1747, Jun 17 | | | Pickpocket, highwayman, pirate, and Old Etonian. | | Toolajee Angria | unknown | 1750 | | 1750 | unknown | | | Son of Conajee, half-brother of Sumbhajee |  | Jean Francois Chambray | unknown | 1687 | | 1756 | unknown | | | Knight of Malta | | Captain Ben Johnson | unknown | 1750 | | 1759 | unknown | | | a most capable and bloodthirsty pirate, playing havoc with the shipping of the Red Sea, taking a... |  | Hiram Breakes | 1745 | 1760 | | 1769 | unknown | | | Breakes was the tall, handsome son of the Councilor of the Island of Saba. In 1764, he was appoin... | | George Gidley | unknown | 1760 | | 1769 | 1765, Dec 19 | | | Member of Peter M'Kinlie's gang. Captured and executed at Newgate for the theft of the Earl of Sa... |  | Peter M'Kinlie | unknown | 1760 | | 1769 | 1765, Dec 19 | | | Boatswain on the Earl of Sandwich. Took his gang (fellow crewmen George Gidley, Richard St... | | John Power | unknown | 1760 | | 1769 | 1768, Mar 10 | | | Born in the West of England.
Served in a slave vessel, the Polly (Captain Fox, commander), on ... | | Richard St. Quintin | unknown | 1760 | | 1769 | 1765, Dec 19 | | | Member of Peter M'Kinlie's gang. Captured and executed at Newgate for the theft of the Earl of Sa... | | Andrew Zekerman | unknown | 1760 | | 1769 | 1765, Dec 19 | | | Member of Peter M'Kinlie's gang. Captured and executed at Newgate for the theft of the Earl of Sa... | | Edward Mackdonald | unknown | 1770 | | 1779 | 1772, Mar 11 | | | One of Lowther’s crew in the “Happy Delivery.” Hanged on the island of St. Kitts, March 11,... | | La Marquise de Fresne | unknown | 1680 | | 178 | unknown | | | Female pirate. Active late 1600's, Mediterranean Pirate |  | Captain James Misson | unknown | 1690 | | 178 | 1694 | | | The account of Captain Misson is highly disputed by historians. He is described in the 2nd volume... | | George Wall | unknown | 1781 | | 1782 | 1782 | | | a Boston fisherman, former privateer who served in the Revolutionary War, and husband of and co-p... | | Thomas Truxtun | 1755, Feb 17 | 1775 | | 1783 | 1822, May 5 | | | an American naval officer after the Revolutionary War, when he served as a privateer, who rose to... | | Alexander White | unknown | 1784 | | 1784 | 1784 | | | Hanged for piracy in Cambridge, Massachusetts in November 1784. | | Esek Hopkins | 1718, Apr 26 | 1740 | | 1786 | 1802, Feb 26 | | | the only Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. He wa... |  | Maurycy Beniowski | 1746, Sep 20 | 1762 | | 1786 | 1786, May 23 | | | a Hungarian nobleman of Polish and Hungarian ancestry. He was an explorer, writer, the self-decla... |  | John Paul Jones | 1747, Jul 6 | 1770 | | 1789 | 1792, Jul 18 | | | a Scottish American sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American ... | | Goole Janfe Schelvis | unknown | 1780 | | 1789 | unknown | | | Dutch privateer in the eighteenth century. He was the captain of the ship the Vliegende Vis. He c... | | J.W. Sextroh | unknown | 1780 | | 1789 | unknown | | | Sextroh, who lived in Zierikzee, was active as a privateer in the eighteenth century. A highly co... | | Daniel Verbaan | unknown | 1780 | | 1789 | unknown | | | A Dutch privateer in the eighteenth century. He was born in Ter Heyde and was Captain on the Dapp... | | Rachel Wall | 1760 ca | 1781 | | 1789 | 1789, Oct 8 | | | an American female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts. She may also have be... | | Jan Lens | unknown | 1700 | | 179 | unknown | | | Dutch privateer in the 18th century. Sold one of the prizes he captured, together with Erasmus Mu... | | Erasmus Muller | unknown | 1700 | | 179 | unknown | | | Dutch privateer in the 18th century. Sold one of the prizes he captured, together with Jan Lens, ... | | Captain Joseph Thwaites | unknown | 1760 | | 1797 | 1797 | | | Coxswain to Captain Hood, he was promoted in 1763 to be a midshipman in H.M.S. Zealous, cruising ... |  | Giorgio Fiamengo | unknown | 1797 | | 1797 | unknown | | | Corsair | | Peter Inglis | unknown | 1797 | | 1797 | unknown | | | Privateer Captured | | Victor Hugues | unknown | 1790 | | 1799 | unknown | | | Born in Marseille, this Frenchman lost his business in Haiti when the slaves there demanded freed... | | Micajah Harpe | 1768 | 1797 | | 1799 | 1799 | | | Known as "Big" Harpe, he and his brother Wiley "Little" Harpe were murderers, serial killers, hig... | | Jean Blanckmann | unknown | 1798 | | 1799 | unknown | | | Corsair, captured by the British |  | Joseph Baker | unknown | 1800 | | 1800 | 1800, May 9 | | | a Canadian pirate, known primarily for the failed mutiny and hijacking of the merchant schooner ... |  | Giuseppe Bavastro | 1760, May 10 | 1800 | | 1800 | 1833, Mar | | | Born in Genoa, died in Algiers | | Lemame | unknown | 1800 | | 1800 | unknown | | | Corsair | | Leroi | unknown | 1800 | | 1800 | unknown | | | Corsair | | Leveille | unknown | 1800 | | 1800 | unknown | | | | | Jacques Perraud | unknown | 1801 | | 1801 | unknown | | | Captain of the privateer Bellone of St. Malo | | Samuel Mason | 1739, Nov 8 | 1790 | | 1803 | 1803 | | | a Virginia militia captain on the American western frontier during the Revolutionary War, who sub... | | Peter Alston | 1765 ca | 1797 | | 1804 | 1804, Feb 8 | | | the late 18th Century and early 19th Century counterfeiter and river pirate, who was believed to ... | | Wiley Harpe | 1770 | 1797 | | 1804 | 1804, Feb 8 | | | Known as "Little" Harpe, he and his brother Micajah "Big" Harpe were murderers, serial killers,... |  | Cheng I | 1765 | 1790 | | 1807 | 1807, Nov 16 | | | a powerful Chinese pirate operating from Canton (Guangdong) and throughout the South China Sea in... | | Stephen Decatur Sr. | 1751, Jun | 1770 | | 1809 | 1808, Nov 11 | | | an American naval captain in the Revolutionary War and later in the Quasi-War. He was the father ... | | Edward Jordan | 1771 | 1794 | | 1809 | 1809 | | | an Irish rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia. He was typical of the violent but short-live... | | Robert Surcouf | 1773, Dec 12 | 1798 | | 1809 | 1827, Jul 8 | | | a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and a... | | Ah Pak | unknown | 1800 | | 1809 | unknown | | | the chieftain of the Cantonese pirates who defeated Portuguese pirates in Ningpo in Zhenjiang, Ch... | | Blackmann | unknown | 1800 | | 1809 | 1810 ca | | | Pirate of unknown origin in the service of France.
Cruised the English Channel and attacked any ... | | Cai Qian | 1761 | 1800 | | 1809 | 1809 | | | a Chinese sea merchant, considered by some a pirate during the Qing Dynasty era. Facing starvatio... |  | Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah | 1760 | 1800 | | 1809 | 1826 | | | an Arab ruler in the Persian Gulf and was described by his contemporary, the English traveller an... | | Jean St. Faust | unknown | 1800 | | 1809 | unknown | | | Frenchman who was the Commander of a fleet of Dutch eight privateer ships in 1803. The ships sail... | | George Lowther | unknown | 1720 | | 181 | 1723 | | | an 18th-century English pirate who, although little is known of his life, was active in the Carib... | | Cheung Po Tsai | 1783 | 1800 | | 1810 | 1822 | | | a 19th-century Chinese pirate. He was a son of a Tanka fisherman who lived in Xinhui of Jiangmen ... | | Ching Shih | 1775 | 1801 | | 1810 | 1844 | | | a prominent pirate in Qing China who terrorized the South China Sea in the early 19th century. Sh... | | Grambo | unknown | 1800 | | 1811 | 1811 | | | Was "boss" of Barataria, the smugglers' stronghold off the Island of Grande Terre, near Louisiana... | | 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... | | Barthelemy Lafon | 1769 | 1790 | | 1820 | 1820, Sep 29 | | | a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap... |  | 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... | | 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... | | James Ford | 1770? | 1799? | | 1833 | 1833 | | | an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois at the turn... |  | 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... |  | 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... |
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