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Abraham Cohen Henriques (deceased)
According to: Moses' brother is Abraham Cohen Henriques, an arms dealer who used his cunning and economic muscle to find safe havens for Jews.Also see
Captain Pierre Paul Bouet Lafitte MP (1746 - 1815)
"Laffite"
Biography Captain Pierre Bouet Lafitte was born in 1770 in Port au Prince, Haiti. He was a privateer, smuggler, blacksmith, spy. Pierre married Françoise Sel l'Etang . Together they had the following...
Jean Lafitte MP (c.1780 - c.1823)
The Pirates Laffite, William C. Davis. Sephardic pirate played a pivotal role in American history. In the book "Jews on the Frontier" (Rachelle Simon, 1991), Rabbi I. Harold Sharfman recounts the tale ...
Moses Cohen Henriques (c.1595 - d.)
Cohen Henriques Eanes was a Jewish Sephardic pirate, operating in the Caribbean.Henriques Eanes helped Dutch naval officer and folk hero Admiral Piet Pieterszoon Hein, of the Dutch West India Company, ...