Anne Bonny
Female pirate
- Fame58.6
- Momentum0.3
- Historical Figures rank#200
Source-basedStable
- Fame58.6
- Momentum0.3
- Historical Figures rank#200
- Wikipedia57.2K
Born 1697
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Updated 2026-06-09
One of the vanishingly rare women documented among Golden Age pirates, and the details of her life are almost all smoke. What's certain: she sailed under John Rackham, fought when his crew was captured, and walked out of history while her crewmates hanged.
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The standard biography comes from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 General History of the Pyrates — illegitimate daughter of an Irish attorney, raised in Carolina, married a sailor — but there's little proof any of it happened that way. What's confirmed begins in the Bahamas, where she met the pirate John Rackham. In August 1720 she joined his crew alongside another woman, Mary Read, and together they stole the sloop William from Nassau harbor. For two months they raided merchant ships across the West Indies until former privateer Jonathan Barnet ran them down near Jamaica in October. The men we…
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Stable58.6
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Momentum0.3
Historical26.1
Source confidence60.0
Completeness60.0
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