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About Hendrick van der Heul
- Hendrick van der Heul (14 May 1676 – c.
- 1762) was a Dutch privateer who served with Captain William Kidd as his quartermaster.
- He later purportedly led an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage, during which he and his crew froze to death.
- Because of references to him as a "small black man", he has sometimes been identified as African, which would make him the highest ranking known black pirate.
- However, his known ancestry is Dutch, and the description may simply mean that he had swarthy skin.
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