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an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War. He later achieved the rank of commodore in the United States Navy. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, after a successful but unprofitable privateering cruise as commander of the Baltimore schooner Rossie, in which he captured the Post Office Packet Service packet ship Princess Amelia, Barney entered the US Navy as a captain, and commanded the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a fleet of gunboats defending Chesapeake Bay.
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Joshua Barneyunknown1759
 
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George Gidleyunknown1760
 
 
17691765, Dec 19
 Member of Peter M'Kinlie's gang. Captured and executed at Newgate for the theft of the Earl of Sa...
Peter M'Kinlieunknown1760
 
 
17691765, Dec 19
 Boatswain on the Earl of Sandwich. Took his gang (fellow crewmen George Gidley, Richard St...
John Powerunknown1760
 
 
17691768, Mar 10
 Born in the West of England. Served in a slave vessel, the Polly (Captain Fox, commander), on ...
Richard St. Quintinunknown1760
 
 
17691765, Dec 19
 Member of Peter M'Kinlie's gang. Captured and executed at Newgate for the theft of the Earl of Sa...
Andrew Zekermanunknown1760
 
 
17691765, Dec 19
 Member of Peter M'Kinlie's gang. Captured and executed at Newgate for the theft of the Earl of Sa...
Edward Mackdonaldunknown1770
 
 
17791772, Mar 11
 One of Lowther’s crew in the “Happy Delivery.” Hanged on the island of St. Kitts, March 11,...
La Marquise de Fresneunknown1680
 
178unknown
 Female pirate. Active late 1600's, Mediterranean Pirate
Captain James Missonunknown1690
 
1781694
 The account of Captain Misson is highly disputed by historians. He is described in the 2nd volume...
George Wallunknown1781
 
 
17821782
 a Boston fisherman, former privateer who served in the Revolutionary War, and husband of and co-p...
Thomas Truxtun1755, Feb 171775
 
 
17831822, May 5
 an American naval officer after the Revolutionary War, when he served as a privateer, who rose to...
Alexander Whiteunknown1784
 
 
17841784
 Hanged for piracy in Cambridge, Massachusetts in November 1784.
Esek Hopkins1718, Apr 261740
 
17861802, Feb 26
  the only Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. He wa...
Maurycy Beniowski1746, Sep 201762
 
 
17861786, May 23
 a Hungarian nobleman of Polish and Hungarian ancestry. He was an explorer, writer, the self-decla...
John Paul Jones1747, Jul 61770
 
 
17891792, Jul 18
 a Scottish American sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American ...
Goole Janfe Schelvisunknown1780
 
 
1789unknown
 Dutch privateer in the eighteenth century. He was the captain of the ship the Vliegende Vis. He c...
J.W. Sextrohunknown1780
 
 
1789unknown
 Sextroh, who lived in Zierikzee, was active as a privateer in the eighteenth century. A highly co...
Daniel Verbaanunknown1780
 
 
1789unknown
 A Dutch privateer in the eighteenth century. He was born in Ter Heyde and was Captain on the Dapp...
Rachel Wall1760 ca1781
 
 
17891789, Oct 8
 an American female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts. She may also have be...
Jan Lensunknown1700
 
179unknown
 Dutch privateer in the 18th century. Sold one of the prizes he captured, together with Erasmus Mu...
Erasmus Mullerunknown1700
 
179unknown
 Dutch privateer in the 18th century. Sold one of the prizes he captured, together with Jan Lens, ...
Captain Joseph Thwaitesunknown1760
 
 
17971797
 Coxswain to Captain Hood, he was promoted in 1763 to be a midshipman in H.M.S. Zealous, cruising ...
Giorgio Fiamengounknown1797
 
 
1797unknown
 Corsair
Peter Inglisunknown1797
 
 
1797unknown
 Privateer Captured
Victor Huguesunknown1790
 
 
1799unknown
 Born in Marseille, this Frenchman lost his business in Haiti when the slaves there demanded freed...
Micajah Harpe17681797
 
 
17991799
 Known as "Big" Harpe, he and his brother Wiley "Little" Harpe were murderers, serial killers, hig...
Jean Blanckmannunknown1798
 
 
1799unknown
 Corsair, captured by the British
Joseph Bakerunknown1800
 
 
18001800, May 9
  a Canadian pirate, known primarily for the failed mutiny and hijacking of the merchant schooner ...
Giuseppe Bavastro1760, May 101800
 
 
18001833, Mar
 Born in Genoa, died in Algiers
Lemameunknown1800
 
 
1800unknown
 Corsair
Leroiunknown1800
 
 
1800unknown
 Corsair
Leveilleunknown1800
 
 
1800unknown
 
Jacques Perraudunknown1801
 
 
1801unknown
 Captain of the privateer Bellone of St. Malo
Jonathan Haradenunknown1745
 
1803unknown
 Privateer
Samuel Mason1739, Nov 81790
 
 
18031803
 a Virginia militia captain on the American western frontier during the Revolutionary War, who sub...
Peter Alston1765 ca1797
 
 
18041804, Feb 8
 the late 18th Century and early 19th Century counterfeiter and river pirate, who was believed to ...
Wiley Harpe17701797
 
 
18041804, Feb 8
 Known as "Little" Harpe, he and his brother Micajah "Big" Harpe were murderers, serial killers,...
Anonymousunknown1805
 
 
1805unknown
 female commander of French privateer LA BAUGOURT
Catherine Hagertyunknown1806
 
 
18061807, Apr
 Australian convicts. Among a group of convicts taken on board a shorthanded ship as crew. The con...
Cheng I17651790
 
 
18071807, Nov 16
 a powerful Chinese pirate operating from Canton (Guangdong) and throughout the South China Sea in...
Robert Jeffreyunknown1807
 
 
1807unknown
 Press-ganged privateer, marooned
Charlotte Badger17781806
 
 
18081816 ca
 widely considered to be the first Australian female pirate despite being from Bromsgrove, Worcest...
Jorgen Jorgensen1780, Mar 291807
 
 
18081841, Jan 20
 a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the Action of 2 March 1808 his ship was ...
Stephen Decatur Sr.1751, Jun1770
 
 
18091808, Nov 11
 an American naval captain in the Revolutionary War and later in the Quasi-War. He was the father ...
Edward Jordan17711794
 
 
18091809
 an Irish rebel, fisherman and pirate in Nova Scotia. He was typical of the violent but short-live...
Robert Surcouf1773, Dec 121798
 
 
18091827, Jul 8
 a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and a...
Ah Pakunknown1800
 
 
1809unknown
 the chieftain of the Cantonese pirates who defeated Portuguese pirates in Ningpo in Zhenjiang, Ch...
Blackmannunknown1800
 
 
18091810 ca
 Pirate of unknown origin in the service of France. Cruised the English Channel and attacked any ...
Cai Qian17611800
 
 
18091809
 a Chinese sea merchant, considered by some a pirate during the Qing Dynasty era. Facing starvatio...
Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah17601800
 
 
18091826
 an Arab ruler in the Persian Gulf and was described by his contemporary, the English traveller an...
Jean St. Faustunknown1800
 
 
1809unknown
 Frenchman who was the Commander of a fleet of Dutch eight privateer ships in 1803. The ships sail...
Margaret Crokeunknown1809
 
 
1809unknown
 Following a dispute with investors over his schooner The Three Sisters, Edward Jordan was on his ...
George Lowtherunknown1720
 
1811723
 an 18th-century English pirate who, although little is known of his life, was active in the Carib...
Cheung Po Tsai17831800
 
 
18101822
 a 19th-century Chinese pirate. He was a son of a Tanka fisherman who lived in Xinhui of Jiangmen ...
Ching Shih17751801
 
 
18101844
 a prominent pirate in Qing China who terrorized the South China Sea in the early 19th century. Sh...
Grambounknown1800
 
 
18111811
 Was "boss" of Barataria, the smugglers' stronghold off the Island of Grande Terre, near Louisiana...
Gaspardunknown1812
 
 
1812unknown
 Ex-Corsair
Dominique You17751802
 
 
18141830, Nov 14
 a privateer, soldier, and politician. Jean Lafitte's most trusted lieutenant, and rumored to have...
Hezekiah Frith17631790
 
18191848
 an 18th-century British ship owner with the reputation of a "gentleman privateer", who engaged in...
Vincenzo Gambi1775 ca1805
 
18191819/20
 a 19th-century Italian pirate. He was one of the most violent and bloodthirsty men in the Gulf of...
Ibrahim Ameerunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 An admiral of an Arabian fleet of Red Sea pirates. In 1816 he captured four British merchant vess...
William Holmesunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 
Edward Rosewainunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 
Sao Cheng Iunknown1810
 
1819unknown
 South China Sea, commanded either 5 or 6 squadrons consisting of 800 large junks, about 1,000 sma...
Hippolyte Bouchard1780, Jan 151817
 
18191843, Jan 4
 a French Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his first...
Barthelemy Lafon17691790
 
18201820, Sep 29
 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap...
Jose Gaspar17561783
 
18211821
 a purported Spanish pirate, the "last of the Buccaneers," who is claimed to have raided the west ...
Louis-Michel Aury1788 ca1802
 
18211821, Aug 30
 a French privateer operating in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean during the early 19th century. A...
Pierre Lafitte17701803
 
18211821
 a privateer in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmit...
Luis Brion1782, Jul 61806
 
18211821, Sep 27
 a military officer who fought in the Venezuelan War of Independence. He rose to the rank of admir...
William Howard Allen1790, Jul 81808
 
18221822, Nov
  a Lieutenant in the United States navy, and a native of the city of Hudson. While a child, he w...
Captain Bakerunknown1810
 
1822unknown
 One of Gasparilla's gang up to 1822, when they were broken up by the United States Navy. His favo...
Renato Beluche1780, Dec 151803
 
18231860, Oct 4
 a Venezuelan merchant and privateer who played many roles in the turbulent world of the 19th-cent...
Captain Baltizarunknown1810
 
1823unknown
 A terror to all shipping in the Gulf of Mexico in the early part of the nineteenth century. Broug...
Breti Gullimillitunknown1810
 
18231823
 Taken with other South American pirates by H.M. sloop Tyne, and hanged at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1...
Jean Lafitte1776 ca1803
 
18261826 ca
 a French-American smuggler, privateer, pirate and slaver in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th ...
Jacque Alexander Tardy17671817
 
18271827, Jun 15
 an unsuccessful and atypical pirate who usually poisoned his victims. Most known for his last act...
Diabolitounknown1810
 
18291823
 a 19th-century Cuban pirate. One of the more violent of the era, he actively engaged the United S...
Maria Lindsey1700 ca1720
 
1831760+
 a pirate in the early 18th century who with her husband, Eric Cobham, practiced piracy in the Gul...
Henri Caesar1791 ca1791
 
18301830
 allegedly a 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate. Efforts to find historical evidence of...
Captain Charles Gibbs1798, Nov 51816
 
18311831, Apr 25
 an American pirate who was one of the last active in the Caribbean during the early-19th century ...
James Ford1770?1799?
 
18331833
 an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois at the turn...
Kazimierz Lux17801795
 
18461846
 an officer of the Polish Legions and a pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 19th century....
Sam Hall Lord17781800
 
18491844, Nov 5
 one of the most famous buccaneers on the island of Barbados. Sam Lord as he was usually known, am...
Hiram Breakes17451760
 
 
185unknown
 Breakes was the tall, handsome son of the Councilor of the Island of Saba. In 1764, he was appoin...
Bill Johnston1782, Feb 11810
 
18601870, Feb 17
 a Thousand Islands smuggler, river pirate, and War of 1812 American privateer. His most famous un...
Juan Gomez17811790
 
18891900, Jul 13
 Brother-in-law of the famous pirate Gasparilla. Died, credited with the great age of 120 years, a...
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