High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Laurens Cornelis Boudewijn de Graaf (ca. 1653, Dordrecht, Dutch Republic - probably 24 May 1704, Cap-Fran ais, Saint-Domingue, alias Laurencillo/Lorencillo El Griffe (Spanish); Sieur de Baldran, alias de Graff (French); or Gesel van de West (Dutch "Scourge of the West"), was a Dutch pirate, mercenary, and naval officer in the service of the French colony of Saint-Domingue during the late 17th and early 18th century. Henry Morgan, the governor of Jamaica, characterized him as 'a great and mischievous pirate." De Graaf was described as tall, blond, mustached and handsome. The Spanish thought he was the Devil in Person.
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