Anne Bonny and Mary Read took up piracy in August 1720. In November of that same year, they were accused of piracy in the Caribbean and were forced to take the stand in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Female pirates were exceedingly rare at this time (in many cases, women were banned from ships), but It's likely that Bonny was inspired by Grace O'Malley, another Irish pirate, who was granted an ...

Anne Bonny and Mary Read both revealed they were pregnant during their trial, ... But not every female pirate escaped execution at least not Rachel Wall known as the first recorded American pirate.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read seemed thick as thieves, but they had met only the year prior on Rackman’s ship. While Read pirated as a way to survive, Bonny was a thrill seeker. She was the daughter of a ...

One of the most well-known female pirates was Anne Bonny. She came into the job by way of her husband at the time who moved them from South Carolina to Nassau, Bahamas — a place known for its ...

Anne Bonny is becoming a regular Thanksgiving guest of New Jersey. The tagged great white shark, nicknamed after the notorious female pirate, has swum back to the coast here and was last located ...

Bonny, if you know your pirate lore, was one only a few known female pirates in recorded history and ran with the likes of Calico Jack Rackham in the early 1700s.

Anne Bonny was one of only a few known female pirates in recorded history and ran with the likes of Calico Jack Rackham in the early 1700s, as the Asbury Park Press reported.