Pirate Project: Dalice!

Mary Read

· born in Devon County, England, in the late 17th century.

· Boy name was Mark Read

· Surrounded by death all her life

· Pretended to be her brother after his death

· Raised as a boy

· When she was 13 her grandmother died

· Her dad died before she was born

· Was married for a few months until her husband died

· Was one of the two famous women pirates

· Once husband died she went back to army to get away from all the death

· Joined a Dutch ship that sailed to the Caribbean

· At almost there destination their ship was attacked and captured by the pirate, Calico Rackham Jack

· Unwilling became a pirate for him

· Eventually started to like it

· Had a chance to leave Calico’s ship but stayed

· On Calico’s boat she became good friends with Anne Bonny

· Crew members believed that they were in a relationship

· Rackham was Anne’s love and was jealous of thier “so called relationship” and threatened to cut Mary’s throat

· To save her life she told the two about her being a women

· Calico decided to break the male crew tradition and let the two ladies stay

· in October 1720,pirate hunter Captain Jonathan Barnet took Rackham's crew by surprise

· most of the crew left them to fight

· but still she was arrested and taken to trail for piracy

· sentenced to hang for acts of piracy

· Until she told them that she was pregnant

· So she received a temporary stay of execution

· Read died in prison in April 1721, but there is no record of burial of her baby

· It is believed that she died from a fever form childbirth

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