Perpetrator in Anne Bonny and Mary Read
Convicted of piracy on 28 November 1720; execution stayed for pregnancy. Birth and fate unknown; a burial of an Ann Bonny is recorded in St Catherine in December 1733 but may not be her.
1720–1721 · Spanish Town, Jamaica · Convicted
Two women sailed with John Rackham for barely two months in 1720. Their trial in Jamaica is the solid record; almost everything else is later legend. Read the case.
Dated events
Rackham, Bonny, Read and about a dozen men steal the sloop William from Nassau harbour.
Bonny and Read are tried, convicted and sentenced to death, then plead pregnancy.