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Rackham, along with all the male crew members, was tried and sentenced to death, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed due to both of them claiming to be pregnant. Read died in jail around mid April 1721, but Bonny's fate is unknown.
Anne Bonny’s male crewmates were tried and hanged for piracy within weeks of their capture. Bonny was sentenced to die, but she succeeded in “pleading the belly,” winning a stay of execution because she was pregnant.
What really happened to Anne Bonny? The pirate Anne Bonny was captured and tried in Jamaica in 1720. Sentenced to death by hanging, her sentence was postponed when it was discovered she was pregnant. Nobody knows what happened to her except that there is no record of her execution. What made Anne Bonny famous?
Anne Bonny was a pirate who fought under the command of “Calico Jack” Rackham between 1718 and 1720. Learn more of her life and times.
Following her mother’s death, Anne Bonny’s “fierce and courageous temper” began to emerge. At one point, she allegedly stabbed a servant girl with a kitchen knife after an argument — and some accounts claim she killed her. Bonny also beat a man who tried to rape her to the point that he was near death.
Mary died in 1711, at which point the teenaged Anne began exhibiting a “fierce and courageous temper,” reportedly murdering a servant girl with a case knife and beating half to death a suitor...
Bonny was sentenced to die, but she succeeded in “pleading the belly,” winning a stay of execution because she was pregnant. By some accounts, she was eventually released, returned to Charles Towne, and died some years after her 80th birthday.
Mary died when Anne was a teenager, from typhoid fever. (Tucker, 32-35.) In 1718, Anne met the sailor James Bonny, and they got married. Her father disapproved and disowned her, and the two left for New Providence Island, in the Bahamas.
Late 1600s. Place of Death: Unknown. Date of Death: Early 1700s? Anne Bonny was a pirate active in the Caribbean between 1718 and 1720. She was born around the turn of the 1700s in Ireland, the daughter of lawyer William Cormac and his domestic servant, Mary Brennan.
In November 1720, a pair of women named Anne Bonny and Mary Read took the stand in Spanish Town, Jamaica, accused of piracy in the Caribbean. Their surviving victims, Dorothy Thomas and Thomas Spenlow, recounted harrowing attacks in which the women fired their pistols at will, struck people with their cutlasses, swore, cursed, and even fought ...