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an English privateer who, based in Guanaja and Roatan, was in the service of the Providence Island Company from 1639 until around 1641. Leaving the Providence Island Company, he sailed to England where he sold sugar and indigo to obtain supplies for another privateering expedition and, upon receiving a three-year letter of marque from the Earl of Warwick, he set sail commanding a fleet including such prominent privateers as Samuel Axe, William Rous and Lewis Morris in 1642. It was during this expedition that Jackson's fleet captured Jamaica in the name of Great Britain.
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03/25/1643-Captain William Jackson's pirate fleet drops anchor where Kingston, Jamaica will be; prepares to attack the town of St. Jago de la Vega
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The Pirates' Who's Who:
(P. Gosse, 1924)
Buccaneer.

In 1642 he gathered together a crew of more than a thousand buccaneers in the Islands of St. Kitts and Barbadoes, and sailed with these in three ships to the Spanish Main, plundering Maracaibo and Truxillo.

On March 25th, 1643, Jackson's li...
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William Jackson [1]unknown1639
 
1645unknown

Daniel Elfrithunknown1607
 
16411641
 a 17th-century English privateer, colonist and slave trader. In the service of the Earl of Warwic...
Hendrik Brouwer15811606
 
16431643, Aug 7
 a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He...
Zheng Zhilong16041623
 
16451661
 a Chinese merchant, pirate and military leader in the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the...
Samuel Axeunknown1629
 
1645unknown
 an English privateer in Dutch service during the early 17th century. In 1635, he accepted Dutch l...
William Rousunknown1631
 
16451645
 a 17th-century English privateer in the service of the Providence Island Company. He started as a...
Thomas Cromwell [2]unknown1643
 
1645unknown
 
Cornelius Corneliszoon Jol15971620
 
16491641, Oct 31
 a 17th-Century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years'...
Captain James [2]unknown1630
 
1649unknown
 A buccaneer captain who was in 1640 temporarily appointed "President" of Tortuga Island by the Pr...
Francisco Díaz Pimientaunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 Spanish privateer and general in the Spanish army. He commanded the Spanish fleet that attacked a...
James Riskinnerunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 a 17th-century English privateer who operated from Providence Island against Spanish shipping dur...
William Rudyerdunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 Muster master General of the Island of Providence colony from 1630 - 1634. In 1634 he returned to...
Frederico Langravio d'Assiaunknown1640
 
16491645 ca
 Knight of Malta. Captain General of the Galleys..... Probably pirate Italian and Maltese knigh...
Don Antonio Maldonado de Texedaunknown1640
 
1649unknown
 Privateer who commanded a Spanish fleet that included two generals of the Brazil fleet: Don Juan ...
Pierre Paulusenunknown1640
 
1649unknown
 Dutch privateer employed by Spain. On 30 May 1644 he captured a Dutch hooker ship and ransomed it...
Catalina de Erausounknown1585
 
1650unknown
 a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide...
Jean Le Vasseur unknown1642
 
1652 unknown
 
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...
Abraham Blauvelt1600 ca1630
 
16631663 ca
 a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ...
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...
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...
Pierre Le Grandunknown1620 or 1660
 
1680unknown
 a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex...
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