This article was published in the February 19, 1913 issue of the Peterborough Morning Times. According to this article, Mary Read joins the navy when she is under 18 years old and goes by the name Frank Read. She and her husband keep an inn in Flanders, until he dies after 1 or 2 years.… Continue reading Female Pirates of Olden Days
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Pirates by Franklin Clarkin
This was published in the 1916 edition of The Reade Record, an annual publication of the Reade Society for Genealogical Research. Clarkin writes about being in correspondence with Civil War veteran Henry Clay Wood, who had "come to assume" he was descended from Anne Bonney. The basis of the assumption is not provided, and it… Continue reading Pirates by Franklin Clarkin
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 