Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer (c. 1583–1627) was aDutch-bornpirate.[1]
Hendrick's last name, Lucifer, referred to a lighting stick, not to the fallen angelLucifer, and was most likely used as anickname due to his use of fire and smoke to surprise enemies.[2]
In 1627, Hendrick was in charge of 3 ships transporting colonists toGuyana for theDutch West India Company, accompanied by two other pirate captains. One encounter off the coast ofCuba caused by a near collision with a two-shipHonduran treasure fleet allowed Hendrick's fleet to capture a ship and contents worth 1.2 millionguilders. Hendrick foughtas brave as a lion, (according to surviving crewmen), and personally killed around ten enemy soldiers in close combat, before being hit by a bullet. He still continued his plundering, but another bullet hit him in the chest and he had to quit fighting. He made it back safely to his ship, and his crew finished up the last of the treasure fleet's sailors. Lucifer, by then mortally wounded, gave the order to transfer the loot (1404 chests of Indigo, 4280 animal skins, 32 jars of balsam ointment and several other items) to his ship. He then walked to his cabin. He slowly lay down to bed, saying he would go to rest, and then died as a result of wounds received during the encounter.[3]
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