Jacob Hall (pirate)

1683-1684) was an English buccaneer and pirate best known for joining a large Dutch and French attack on Spanish Veracruz.

Nicholas van Hoorn organized a buccaneer raid of Veracruz in early 1683, armed with a privateering commission from the Governor of Santo Domingo.

[2] Hall's brig and several others joined the expedition and thoroughly sacked the city that May.

[3] The Proprietor of Carolina, the Earl of Craven, replied that Hall had stayed there only briefly and had been operating under a valid privateering commission at the time.

[5] It had, in fact, been made illegal for English subjects to serve under foreign commanders, but Hall had been at sea when the act was passed and was not apprehended.