Lafitte

JEAN, (lah -feet',) an American buccaneer, of French Creole parentage, B. in Louisiana, abt. 1750. In 1813 he became notorious as the chief of a piratical squadron whose ve els infested the Gulfof Mexico, and preyed upon its commerce. He, in great part, retrieved the errors of a mi pent life by patriotically placing his services, along with those of his followers, at the disposition of the U. S. govt. in 1814, during the war with England. The date of his death is not known. [s. 522]