Johannes de Graaff

Johannes de Graaff (1729–1813), also referred to as Johannis de Graeff in some documents, was a Dutch Governor of Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles representing the Dutch West India Company during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). The island was a major center of contraband smuggling gunpowder to the Americans when the Dutch Republic had an official policy of embargoing trade with the Americans.