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One of four pirates to seek refuge in the Lynn Woods, Thomas Veal avoided capture by hiding in Dungeon Rock. Pirate Veal reportedly stashed his treasure in the cave there. …..Not much is known about pirate Thomas Veal other than he was one of four others who hid in Dungeon Rock in the Lynn Woods to escape capture. Reportedly, his loot remains stashed somewhere in a cave.
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The Pirates' Who's Who:
(P. Gosse, 1924)
One of four New England pirates who in the middle of the seventeenth century rowed up the Saugus river and landed at a place called Lynn Woods. The boat contained, besides the pirates, a quantity of plunder and a beautiful young woman. They built a hut on Dungeon R...
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Thomas Vealunknown1650
 
1659unknown

Jean Le Vasseur unknown1642
 
1652 unknown
 
Philip Rasunknown1652
 
 
1655unknown
 Captured several English ships as both a corsair and privateer during the First Anglo-Dutch War.....
Bartholomeus de Jagerunknown1655
 
 
1655unknown
 Dutch corsair active against the Portuguese. He attacked a small merchant fleet at Fernando Noron...
Cornelis Janszoon van de Veldeunknown1655
 
 
1655unknown
 Dutch corsair active near the Antillen, he was briefly associated with Bartholomeus de Jager........
Willem Albertse Blaeuveltunknown1643
 
1656unknown
 From 1643 to 1656 we find many references to the Capetyn in the documentary history of the Colony...
Rupertunknown1640
 
1659unknown
 After an adventurous life as a soldier on the Continent, he sailed from Ireland in 1648 with seve...
Vincenzo Alessandriunknown1650
 
16591657
 Originally an Italian Knight of Malta, Alessandri became a notorious buccaneer. He worked mostly ...
Captain Thomas Hardingunknown1650
 
1659unknown
 In 1653 he captured a rich prize, a Barbadoes vessel. For this he was tried for piracy at Boston.
Captain Edward Hullunknown1650
 
1659unknown
 Commanded the Swallow "frigott" in which he sailed from Boston in 1653, and captured several Fren...
Jan Naelhoutunknown1650
 
1659unknown
 Naelhout the elder was a privateer who served the Dutch West Indies Company until 1657. In 1657 h...
Leijn Pickéunknown1650
 
1659unknown
 Dutch privateer who managed to capture at least 12 English vessels during the "First English War"...
Mathijs Quarsunknown1650
 
1659unknown
 Dutch privateer in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company. In August 1656 he managed to cap...
Captain Stanleyunknown1650
 
1660unknown
 Buccaneer. With a few other buccaneers in their stronghold at New Providence Island in 1660, w...
Theunis Postunknown1650
 
1660s 9unknown
 Captain of a privateer in 1654. In 1660 he served on a merchant ship to the West-Indies. During t...
Koxinga 1624, Aug 241646
 
16621662, Jun 23
 a Chinese military leader who was born in Hirado, Japan to the Chinese merchant/pirate Zheng Zhil...
Abraham Blauvelt1600 ca1630
 
16631663 ca
 a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ...
Gustav Skytte16371657
 
16631663, Apr 21
 a Swedish nobleman and pirate. Born as the child of Jacob Skytte and Anna Bjelkenstjerna, he beca...
Cornelis Evertsen the Elder1610, Aug 41626
 
16661666, Jun 11
 a Dutch admiral. In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a private...
Major Samuel Smithunknown1640
 
1669unknown
 Buccaneer. At one time a buccaneer with the famous Mansfield. In 1641 he was sent, by the Governo...
Philippe Bequelunknown1650
 
1669unknown
 a 17th-century French privateer. At the request of Deschamps of Rausset, Bequel would use the sma...
Jacquotte Delahayeunknown1650
 
1669unknown
 a probably fictitious pirate, or buccaneer, active in the Caribbean sea. Alongside Anne Dieu-le-V...
Sir Christopher Myngs16251650
 
16691666
  English naval officer and pirate. He first appears prominently as the captain of the Elisabeth, ...
Robert Searleunknown1650
 
1669unknown
 one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is kn...
Christina Anna Skytte16431650
 
16691677
 a Swedish baroness and pirate. From 1657 onward, her brother, baron Gustav Skytte, secrecy manage...
Bartolomeu Portuguesunknown1655
 
1669unknown
 a Portuguese buccaneer who attacked Spanish shipping in the late 1660s; he also established one o...
Roche Braziliano1630, Feb 271654
 
16711671+
 a Dutch pirate born in the town of Groningen. His pirate career lasted from 1654 until his disapp...
Moise Vauquelinunknown1650
 
1672unknown
 An officer under François l'Ollonais, he also had a partnership with Pierre Le Picard. In his l...
Grillo Diego unknown1620
 
1673unknown
  Spanish but worked for the French, Hanged
Diego Grillounknown1639
 
16731673
 There are relatively few historical records of Diego el mulato Grillo, and they are not all consi...
Daniel Johnson16291657
 
16751675
 an English buccaneer who, serving under buccaneers as Moyse Van Vin and Pierre le Picard, sailed ...
Cornelis Evertsen the Younger1628, Apr 161648
 
16781679, Sep 20
 a Dutch Admiral from the 17th century. Cornelis was the son of Lieutenant-Admiral Johan Evertsen ...
Isaac Rochussen16311650
 
16791710
 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and privateer during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch War. His captu...
Pierre Le Grandunknown1620 or 1660
 
1680unknown
 a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex...
Captain Nicholas Van Hoorn1635 ca1655
 
1683 1683, Jun
 a merchant sailor, privateer and pirate. He was born in the Netherlands and died near Veracruz af...
Basil Ringroseunknown1653
 
1686unknown
 surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific...
Sir James Houblon1629, Jul1654
 
16981700, Oct
 an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held appointments in ...
Anne Dieu-Le-Veut1661, Aug 281650
 
17041710, Jan 11
 a French Pirate. Alongside Jacquotte Delahaye she was one of very few female Buccaneers. She was ...
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