Perpetrator in Anne Bonny and Mary Read
Convicted with Bonny; died in custody and was buried on 28 April 1721. Birth date unknown.
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.
Mary Read is buried in St Catherine parish after dying in custody.