once, when a young Fellow would have lain with her, againſt her Will, ſhe beat him ſo, that he lay ill of it a conſiderable Time.
While ſhe lived with her Father, ſhe was look’d upon as one that would be a good Fortune, wherefore it was thought her Father expected a good Match for her; but ſhe ſpoilt all, for without his Conſent, ſhe marries a young Fellow, who belonged to the Sea, and was not worth a Groat; which provoked her Father to ſuch a Degree, that he turned her out of Doors, upon which the young Fellow, who married her, finding himſelf diſappointed in his Expectation, ſhipped himſelf and Wife, for the Iſland of Providence, expecting Employment there.
Here ſhe became acquainted with Rackam the Pyrate, who making Courtſhip to her, ſoon found Means of withdrawing her Affections from her Husband, ſo that ſhe conſented to elope from him, and go to Sea with Rackam in Men’s Cloaths: She was as good as her Word, and after ſhe had been at Sea ſome Time, ſhe proved with Child, and beginning to grow big, Rackam landed her on the Iſland of Cuba; and recommending her there to ſome Friends of his, they took Care of her, till ſhe was brought to Bed: When ſhe was up and well again, he ſent for her to bear him Company.
The King’s Proclamation being out, for pardoning of Pyrates, he took the Benefit of it, and ſurrendered; afterwards being ſent upon the privateering Account, he returned to his old Trade, as has been already hinted in the Story of Mary Read. In all theſe Expeditions, Anne Bonny bore him Company, and when any Buſineſs was to be done in their Way, no Body was more forward or couragious than ſhe, and particularly when they were taken; ſhe and Mary Read, with one more, were
