![]() Read died of a fever in jail in April 1721 (likely due to complications from the pregnancy), but Bonny's fate is unknown.īonny's birthdate is speculated to be around 1700. All three were sentenced to death, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed because both of them were pregnant. She was captured alongside Rackham and Mary Read in October 1720. It was there that she met Calico Jack Rackham and became his pirate partner and lover. Around 1718 she married sailor James Bonny, assumed his last name, and moved with him to Nassau in the Bahamas, a sanctuary for pirates. ![]() ![]() ![]() What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates.īonny was born in Ireland around 1700 and moved to London and then to the Province of Carolina when she was about 10 years old. Anne Bonny (8 March 1697 – disappeared April 1721), sometimes Anne Bonney, was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates in recorded history. ![]()
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