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Census • Person • Margaret Croke
aka: Margaret Jordan

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unknown	1809	unknown

Following a dispute with investors over his schooner The Three Sisters, Edward Jordan was on his way to Halifax to sort it out. Wrongly assuming his family was being sent to debtors' prison, he killed two crewman then threw the Captain overboard before commandeering the vessel with the help of the remaining crewman. The marooned Captain survived and testified against Jordan claiming Margaret, who was aboard with her son and three young daughters, was also involved. Margaret admitted hitting the Captain after he had hit her husband during an argument in her cabin before he decided to commandeer the vessel; the other crew member testified she was actually in fear for her life from her violent husband and had attempted to escape. Both Margaret and Edward were hanged for piracy.

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...