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| Pirates Name | Mary Read |
| Introduction | Mary Read was raised as a Boy by her mother so she could receive benefits. She Joined the Flemish Army diguised as a man where she fell in love with a fellow soldier. She then revealed her true gender and married. Shortly after her husband died she boarded Calico Jacks ship. Here she was attracted to a sailor who later revealed himself as Anne Bonney another of the famous woman pirates |
| Her Ships Name | a Dutch Merchant Ship
served with Calico Jack on Pirate Ship Treasure |
| Sailed | ~Mary signed on first as a soldier in Flanders in a foot regiment and later changed to a horse regiment. She fell in love with a Fleming, unveiled her true identity of a woman to him , they fell in love and married. The union did not last long as her husband soon died of fever
~Mary again switched to a male attire and set to sea in a Dutch merchant bound for the West Indies,
~ it is said that Mary's ship was taken by by Jack Rackam's ship.( Calico Jack) and they joined as privateers against the Spanish.
~ Mary's sex was not so much as suspected by any person on board till Anne Bonny took a liking to her thinking she was a handsome man
~ She revealed herself as a woman both to Anne Bonny and Calico Jack ( who had grown jealous thinking she was a man as he was in love with Anne Bonney herself
- Privateering soon turned to piracy.
~Captain Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read were taken prisoner and tried for the charges of piracy and subsequently sentenced to hang
.~ Mary Read and Anne Bonney ( sometimes spelled Anne Bonny) were both pregnant at the time, and managed to receive stays of execution until after the births of their children. |
| Died | Mary herself, at the age of 36, had her death sentence for piracy postponed due to her pregnancy,
She died within months of a fever, at date around April 28, 1721. |
| Other famous Pirate Factsheets |  Famous Male Pirates
Blackbeard
Calico Jack
Henry Morgan
Stede Bonnet
Henry Avery
Edward England
Famous Woman Pirates
Anne Bonney ( Anne Bonny)
Mary Read Pirate the Pirate
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