For Mary Karen Read, see Virginia Tech massacre § Norris Hall shootings.
Not to be confused with Mary Reed or Mary Reid.
Mary "Mark" Read
An 1842 sketch of Read (right) killing a pirate
Born
c. 1680–1695
Kingdom of England
Died
28 April 1721 (aged 26–41)
Port Royal, Colony of Jamaica
Resting place
St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica
Piratical career
Type
Pirate
Allegiance
English-allied infantry and cavalry in Holland
Years active
c. 1708–1721
Rank
Privateer
Base of operations
Caribbean
Mary Read (unknown – 28 April 1721), fictionally[1] known as Mark Read, was an English pirate about whom there is very little factual documentation. She and Anne Bonny were two famous female pirates from the 18th century, and among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy at the height of the "Golden Age of Piracy".
Read was born in England between 1680 and 1693. Lore[2] has it she began dressing as a boy at a young age, at first at her mother's urging in order to receive inheritance money and then as a teenager in order to join the British military. She then married and upon her husband's death moved to the West Indies around 1715. Circa 1720, she met Jack Rackham and joined his crew, dressing as a man alongside Anne Bonny. Her time as a pirate was successful but short lived, as she, Bonny and Rackham were arrested in November 1720. Rackham was executed, but Read and Bonny both claimed to be pregnant and received delayed sentences. Read died while imprisoned in April 1721.
^Carlova, John. Mistress of the Seas. New York: Citadel Press, 1964
MaryRead (unknown – 28 April 1721), fictionally known as Mark Read, was an English pirate about whom there is very little factual documentation. She...
MaryRead in October 1720. All three were sentenced to death, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed because both of them were pregnant. Read...
of Piracy". He is most remembered for having two female crew members: MaryRead and his lover, Anne Bonny. Rackham deposed Charles Vane from his position...
Jennings was mentor to Charles Vane, "Calico" Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, and MaryRead. Despite their rivalries, the pirates formed themselves into the Flying...
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Mate of the Lion who once sailed with Henry Avery. Cara Roberts as MaryRead / Mark Read: Crew Mate of the Lion. = Main cast (credited) = Recurring cast...
everything when his crew left him to serve aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge. MaryRead started her career in the Royal Navy disguised as a man. She became one...
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Caribbean, best known for capturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and MaryRead. The Assembly of the Colony of Jamaica gave him a financial reward, and...
the women. Many famous female pirates, such as Anne Bonny (1697–?) and MaryRead (1685–1721), accordingly dressed and acted as men. Since the gender of...
behind schedule. The pirates Anne Bonny and MaryRead both used this plea to delay execution, although Read died of fever in prison. It appears that women...
runner-up Tom Read Wilson". Metro. 17 February 2021. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2023. "BBC's Mary Berry's Fantastic...
"If There's a Man Among Ye: The Tale of Pirate Queens Anne Bonny and MaryRead". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved March 20, 2017. The notion of 'walking the...
under. He appears to Blackbeard during a dream sequence. Rachel House as MaryRead (season 2), a former pirate and an old acquaintance of Blackbeard who...
Guest stars Imaginary Ghosts Animals and pets References Arthur Timothy Read is an eight-year-old aardvark. (voiced by Michael Yarmush 1996–2000, 2022;...
this code was punishable by death. Female pirates such as Anne Bonny and MaryRead refute the myth that only male pirates existed. Men created stories to...
avventure di MaryRead) is a 1961 adventure film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Lisa Gastoni and Jerome Courtland. Lisa Gastoni as MaryRead Jerome...
finest book ever written, reads it over and over again, and considers a man but poorly read if he had happened not to read the book. French novelist Michel...
Youtube. IGN Walkthroughs. 29 October 2013. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2019. "Damn You, Old Scratch."- MaryRead...
fellow pirates including Blackbeard, Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane and MaryRead, and helped them establish an independent Pirate Republic in Nassau. In...
Howell Davis Israel Hands James Martel John Evans John Gow Jolly Roger MaryRead Richard Worley Philip Roche Stede Bonnet Thomas Anstis Volume II features:...
Barbara French Read on December 29, 1917, the daughter of contractor John Howard Read and Nancy Elizabeth Collier, in Port Arthur, Ontario. Read moved to California...
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