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Pirates born active died
unknown 1655 unknown
Dutch corsair active against the Portuguese. He attacked a small merchant fleet at Fernando Noronha capturing one merchant ship and driving off the other....... Privateer and captain of a ship in 1655. In 1655 he captured the vessel the Consciencia. In October, at the Antillen, he met another Dutch privateer called Cornelis Janszoon van de Velde. He had attacked two Portuguese merchant ships and near the Isle of Fernando Noronha he had managed to capture one of these ships. Part of the cargoe of the Consciencia (sugar) was transported on board the Portuguese vessel that van de Velde had capture Another part was transported on board the ship the Salamander. After this they sailed for the Dutch Republic to sell their prizes.
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Bartholomeus de Jager unknown 1655
1655 unknown
Willem Albertse Blaeuvelt unknown 1643 1656 unknown From 1643 to 1656 we find many references to the Capetyn in the documentary history of the Colony... Rupert unknown 1640 1659 unknown After an adventurous life as a soldier on the Continent, he sailed from Ireland in 1648 with seve... Vincenzo Alessandri unknown 1650 1659 1657 Originally an Italian Knight of Malta, Alessandri became a notorious buccaneer. He worked mostly ... Captain Thomas Harding unknown 1650 1659 unknown In 1653 he captured a rich prize, a Barbadoes vessel. For this he was tried for piracy at Boston. Captain Edward Hull unknown 1650 1659 unknown Commanded the Swallow "frigott" in which he sailed from Boston in 1653, and captured several Fren... Jan Naelhout unknown 1650 1659 unknown Naelhout the elder was a privateer who served the Dutch West Indies Company until 1657. In 1657 h... Leijn Pické unknown 1650 1659 unknown Dutch privateer who managed to capture at least 12 English vessels during the "First English War"... Mathijs Quars unknown 1650 1659 unknown Dutch privateer in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company. In August 1656 he managed to cap... Thomas Veal unknown 1650 1659 unknown One of four pirates to seek refuge in the Lynn Woods, Thomas Veal avoided capture by hiding in Du... Captain Stanley unknown 1650 1660 unknown Buccaneer.
With a few other buccaneers in their stronghold at New Providence Island in 1660, w... Theunis Post unknown 1650 1660s 9 unknown Captain of a privateer in 1654. In 1660 he served on a merchant ship to the West-Indies. During t... Koxinga 1624, Aug 24 1646 1662 1662, Jun 23 a Chinese military leader who was born in Hirado, Japan to the Chinese merchant/pirate Zheng Zhil... Abraham Blauvelt 1600 ca 1630 1663 1663 ca a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ... Cornelis Evertsen the Elder 1610, Aug 4 1626 1666 1666, Jun 11 a Dutch admiral. In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a private... Major Samuel Smith unknown 1640 1669 unknown Buccaneer. At one time a buccaneer with the famous Mansfield. In 1641 he was sent, by the Governo... Philippe Bequel unknown 1650 1669 unknown a 17th-century French privateer. At the request of Deschamps of Rausset, Bequel would use the sma... Jacquotte Delahaye unknown 1650 1669 unknown a probably fictitious pirate, or buccaneer, active in the Caribbean sea. Alongside Anne Dieu-le-V... Sir Christopher Myngs 1625 1650 1669 1666 English naval officer and pirate. He first appears prominently as the captain of the Elisabeth, ... Robert Searle unknown 1650 1669 unknown one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is kn... Christina Anna Skytte 1643 1650 1669 1677 a Swedish baroness and pirate. From 1657 onward, her brother, baron Gustav Skytte, secrecy manage... Roche Braziliano 1630, Feb 27 1654 1671 1671+ a Dutch pirate born in the town of Groningen. His pirate career lasted from 1654 until his disapp... Moise Vauquelin unknown 1650 1672 unknown An officer under François l'Ollonais, he also had a partnership with Pierre Le Picard. In his l... Grillo Diego unknown 1620 1673 unknown Spanish but worked for the French, Hanged Diego Grillo unknown 1639 1673 1673 There are relatively few historical records of Diego el mulato Grillo, and they are not all consi... Cornelis Evertsen the Younger 1628, Apr 16 1648 1678 1679, Sep 20 a Dutch Admiral from the 17th century. Cornelis was the son of Lieutenant-Admiral Johan Evertsen ... Isaac Rochussen 1631 1650 1679 1710 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and privateer during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch War. His captu... Pierre Le Grand unknown 1620 or 1660 1680 unknown a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex... Basil Ringrose unknown 1653 1686 unknown surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific... Sir James Houblon 1629, Jul 1654 1698 1700, Oct an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held appointments in ... Anne Dieu-Le-Veut 1661, Aug 28 1650 1704 1710, Jan 11 a French Pirate. Alongside Jacquotte Delahaye she was one of very few female Buccaneers. She was ...
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