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154. Every family has skeletons in their closets! Here is one of ours -- 450 years ago! A Pirate!

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Every family has a few skeletons in their closets!  If you haven't found them yet, you probably will someday .  The story below, although around 450 years old, is about one ancestor who was a pirate, and his son, who wasn't too reputable of a person either.  They are on my Pennsylvania Dutch Ancestry line.  I hope you enjoy reading about them -- Hopefully by now they have repented!                               JAN JANSZOON VAN HAARLEM                                 The Pirate King of the Barbary Coast                                    c. 1575-c. 1641       About 1575 a child christened Jan, was born in the city of Haarlem, North Holland, the Netherlands. Jan grew up an average Dutch boy, and when...