Jan Willems, also known as Janke or…

Jan Willems, also known as Janke or Yankey Willems, a buccaneer, based in Petit Goave, participates in a number of expeditions against the Spanish during the early to-mid 1680s with other well-known privateers including the American Thomas Paine, the Dutchmen Michiel Andrieszoon, Laurens de Graaf, Nicholas van Hoorn, and the Frenchman Michel de Grammont.

Willem, although he is a Dutchman, works with English privateers during the first years of his buccaneering career, raiding Rio de la Hacha with American privateer Thomas Paine in 1680.