Anne Bonny

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Anne Bonny was a non-fictional Irish pirate who operated in The Carribean. She was one of few female pirates in recorded history and most of what is known about her comes from Captain Charles Johnson's "A General History of the Pyrates." Bonny was born in 1697 in Ireland, but she moved to London, England when young, and then to the Province of Carolina in North America/The Carribean when she was 10 years old. At age 18 she married John Bonny, took his last name, and moved to the Bahamas, which was a sanctuary for pirates. This is where she met Calico Jack Rackham, a pirate, and she married him, becoming his partner in pirating. She was captured with Rackham in 1720 and sentenced to death, but because she was pregnant, her execution was stayed. It is unclear what happened to Anne Bonny after that, but she was not executed. There is a record of an "Ann Bonny" buried on 29 December 1733 in the same town in Jamaica where she was tried. Other sources have stated that she may have returned to the United States after her imprisonment, dying in South Carolina on April 1782. There have been numerous fictional and non-fictional media depictions of Anne Bonny in books, comics, video games, music, film, and television.