Calico Jack
English pirate (1682-1720)
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Lived 1682–1720, aged 38United Kingdom
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An English pirate who operated for barely two months in 1720 before his capture and hanging — remembered now almost entirely because two of his crew, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, were women.
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John Rackham's life before piracy is unknown. By August 1720, he surfaced in Nassau, where on the 22nd he stole merchant John Ham's sloop from the harbor and set out. His career lasted two months. On 22 October 1720, former privateer Jonathan Barnet caught him. Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica, put him on trial, and Rackham was hanged in Port Royal on 18 November that year. The nickname "Calico Jack" appears nowhere in primary sources and is likely fiction invented later.
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