Lot 83
[Female Pirates] Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Broadsheet newspaper of The Post Boy, London, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 1721, 2pp, 14¼ x 8¼ in. Red tax stamp on verso. Bearing news on the trial of the infamous woman pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and the execution of other pirates. Reports include "…an account from Jamaica…of the Execution at Kingston and Port Royal of nine more Pyrates; also of the Trial and Condemnation of eleven others, two of which were Women, named Mary Read and Sarah Bonny; the Evidence against whom deposed, that they were both in Mens Habit, and fought desperately, and that they narrowly escap'd being murder'd by them…." Also news of a Capt. Marston who had been "taken by a Pyrate…reckon'd to be the Crew of the Brigantine that belong'd to [Bartholemew] Roberts the Pyrate…." Bonny and Read escaped the hangman, only because both of them were pregnant! Mary died in prison of a fever and Anne was eventually ransomed from the British by her father. She then disappeared from history. Captain Roberts was killed by grapeshot cannon fire, which struck him in the throat during a British attack. Newspaper reports on Read and Bonny are virtually unheard of.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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| Realized $930 |
