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Anne Bonney

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Anne Bonney

The Life and Exploits of Anne Bonney
This female pirate, Anne Bonney was a native of Cork. Her father was an attorney, and, by his activity in business, rose to considerable respectability in that place.

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Anne was the fruit of an unlawful connexion with his own servant maid, with whom he afterwards eloped to America, leaving his own affectionate and lawful wife. He settled at Carolina, and for some time followed his own profession; but soon commenced merchant, and was so successful as to purchase a considerable plantation.  There he lived with his servant in the character of his wife; but she dying, his daughter Anne superintended the domestic affairs of her father.

 
 
 

Anne Bonney is disowned by her father
During her residence with her parent she was supposed to have a considerable fortune, and was accordingly addressed by young men of respectable situations in life. It happened with Anne, however, as with many others of her youth and sex, that her feelings, and not her interest, determined her choice of a husband. She married a young sailor without a shilling. The avaricious father was so enraged, that, deaf to the feelings of a parent, he turned his own child out of doors. Upon this cruel usage, and the disappointment of her fortune, Anne and her husband sailed for the island of Providence, in the hope of gaining employment.

 

Anne Bonney and Calico Jack Rackham
Anne Bonney's affections were soon estranged from her husband by Captain Rackam (Calico Jack the Pirate); and eloping with him, she went to sea in men's clothes. Proving with child, the captain put her on shore, and entrusted her to the care of some friends until her recovery, when she again accompanied him in his expeditions.

Anne Bonney a brave female pirate
Upon the king's proclamation offering a pardon to all pirates, he surrendered, and went into the privateering business but he soon embraced an opportunity to return to his favorite employment. In all his piratical exploits Anne Bonney accompanied him and displayed such courage and intrepidity, that she, along with Mary Readand a seaman, were the last three who remained on board when the vessel was taken.

 
 

Anne Bonney
Anne was known to many of the planters in Jamaica, who remembered to have seen her in her father's house, and they were disposed to intercede in her behalf. Her unprincipled conduct, in leaving her own husband and forming an illicit connexion with Rackam, tended, however, to render her friends less active. By a special favor, Rackam was permitted to visit her the day before he was executed; but, instead of condoling with him on account of his sad fate, she only observed, that she was sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a man he needed not have been hanged like a dog. Being with child, she remained in prison until her recovery, was reprieved from time to time and it is certain that she was not executed.

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