Anne bonny

.-Anne Bonny was a pirate who plied her trade in the Caribbean.
Official records and contemporary letters dealing with her life are scarce. Most details about her life prior to her arrival in theBahamas do not appear to be based on any primary source evidence, including the claims that she was born between 1697 and 1705 in Kinsale, Ireland.
She was a daughter of attorney William Cormac andhis maidservant; William's wife was named Mary Brennan and her mother was named Peg; and that, when the affair became public, Cormac moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he made a fortune andbought a large plantation
When Bonny was 13, she supposedly stabbed a servant girl in the stomach with a table knife.
According to legend, James Bonny hoped to win possession of his wife's family estate,but she was disowned by her father
Bonny was a red-haired beauty and considered a sexy catch. She married a poor sailor and small-time pirate named James Bonny
 It is known that sometime between1714 and 1718 Anne Bonny and James Bonny moved to Nassau, in the Bahamas, which was then a pirate hub and base for many pirate operations. It is also true that after the arrival of Governor WoodesRogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became an informant for the governor.
Anne Bonny began mingling with pirates at the local drinking establishments, and met the pirate John “Calico Jack”Rackham, with whom she had an affair. While Rackham and many other pirates were enjoying the King's pardon in the New Providence, James dragged Anne before Gov. Rogers to demand she be flogged for adulteryand returned to him.
There was even an offer for Rackham to buy her in a divorce-by-purchase, but Anne refused to be "bought and sold like cattle."
She was sentenced to the flogging, but laterAnne and Rackham escaped to live together as pirates
Bonny did not disguise herself as a man in order to join Rackham's crew aboard the Revenge as is often claimed. In fact, she and Mary Read helped...