Full Name: Mary Read but also known as Mark Read
Profession:Pirate

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Biography: One of the few women known to have been convicted of piracy in the 18th century, and one of the most famous female pirates of the 'Golden Age of Piracy', the other beingAnne Bonny.

Having dressed as a male to enlist in the British military, Read later met Jack Rackham (known more commonly asCalico Jack) and joined his crew as a pirate in 1720. Her career was successful but brief, as herself, Anne Bonny and Rackham were arrested in November 1720. Rackham was executed but her and Bonny claimed to be pregnant to delay the sentence.

She later died of fever in April 1721, possibly due to complications from pregnancy.

Born:1685

Died:April 28,1721
Cause of Death: A violentfever while in prison and likely still pregnant

• 1720-11-15 PiratesAnne Bonny, Mary Read andCalico Jack are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to the Spanish Town of Jamaica, for trial
• 1720-11-28Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution

• Anne Bonny
• Bartholomew Roberts
• Francis Drake
• Henry Morgan
• William Dampier
• William Kidd