Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/185

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Of Anne Bonny.
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all the Perſons that durſt keep the Deck, as has been before hinted.

Her Father was known to a great many Gentlemen, Planters of Jamaica, who had dealt with him, and among whom he had a good Reputation; and ſome of them, who had been in Carolina, remember’d to have ſeen her in his Houſe; wherefore they were inclined to ſhew her Favour, but the Action of leaving her Husband was an ugly Circumſtance againſt her. The Day that Rackam was executed, by ſpecial Favour, he was admitted to ſee her; but all the Comfort ſhe gave him, was, that ſhe was ſorry to ſee him there, but if he had fought like a Man, he need not have been hang’d like a Dog.

She was continued in Priſon, to the Time of her lying in, and afterwards reprieved from Time to Time; but what is become of her ſince, we cannot tell; only this we know, that ſhe was not executed.



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