Piracy in the Atlantic World been coerced into joining the pirate gang. Two of the other captives were not as lucky, and were "condemned to die." The third captive was pardoned. Three years later, another female pirate, Mary Crickett, along with five others, was ordered to be executed. When Mary Read and Anne Bonny were captured, they faced execution. However, once their pregnancies were known, they were pardoned from the gallows. Both women were sentenced to prison, where Mary Read eventually perished and Anne Bonny later escaped. In 1724, the first edition of A General History of Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Mary Grace Mary Grace Mary Grace ( – 1799/1800) was a self-taught professional portrait painter and copyist in the 18th century. Mary Hodgkiss' father was a shoemaker so her skill as a painter is thought to be self-taught although she may have had some assistance from Stephen Slaughter. She obtained work copying other images but she also exhibited her own compositions too at the Society of Artists of Great Britain. She married Thomas Grace in 1744 in London. In 1749 a painting by her of the Reverend Thomas Bradbury was published after it was engraved by John Faber. The National Portrait Gallery