Anne Bonny in abundant treasure. Bonny took part in combat alongside the men, and the accounts of her exploits present her as competent, effective in combat, and respected by her shipmates. Governor Rogers had named her in a "Wanted Pirates" circular published in the continent's only newspaper, "The Boston News-Letter". Although Bonny was historically renowned as a Caribbean pirate, she never commanded a ship of her own. In October 1720, Rackham and his crew were attacked by a "King's ship", a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. Most of Rackham's pirates put up little
Mary Anne Hardy social topics, and short stories, for journals and magazines. Iza Duffus Hardy, also known as a writer, was her daughter. Attribution Mary Anne Hardy Mary Anne Hardy (c.1825–1891), name before marriage Mary Anne MacDowell, known also as Lady Duffus Hardy, with novels published under the pseudonym Addlestone Hill, was an English novelist and travel writer. She was the only child of Charles MacDowell and Eliza, his second wife, born in Fitzroy Square, London, about 1825; her father had died five months before. She was entirely educated at home. She became the second wife of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, whom she