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, though evidence seems lacking, during which he and his crew froze to death.

In 1696, Scottish seafarer William Kidd received letters of Marque from agents of King William III and other prominent English lords to outfit a ship and proceed to the Indian Ocean to find and take from the five or six known European pirate vessels in those waters any merchant goods they had and eliminate the threat they posed to trade between England and India.

Van der Heul moved to Montaukett territory, where he settled and built a family.

He became a master's mate on a merchant vessel and in 1730, captained a ship north in search of the Northwest Passage, for which a prize of £20,000 was offered.