Perpetrator in Anne Bonny and Mary Read
Led the theft of the sloop William; tried 16 November 1720 and hanged at Port Royal. Birth uncertain, possibly 1673.
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.
Rackham and the male crew are tried at Spanish Town and condemned.
Rackham is hanged at Port Royal.