Mary Read leaving only the women and one other to fight Barnet's boarding party (it is also possible that Rackham and his crew were too drunk to fight). Allegedly, Read angrily shot into the hold, killing one, and wounding others, when the men would not come up and fight with them. Barnet's crew eventually overcame the women. Rackham surrendered, requesting "quarter". Rackham and his crew were arrested and brought to trial in what is now Spanish Town, Jamaica, where they were sentenced to hang for acts of piracy, as were Read and Bonny. However, the women revealed they were both "quick with
Mary Grace O'Brien be the first female Circuit Court Judge in the 31st Judicial Circuit. She was elected by the General Assembly on January 22, 2015, to an eight-year term beginning February 1, 2015. On June 15, 2015 she was invested as the 37th Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Her current term expires in on January 31, 2023. Mary Grace O'Brien Mary Grace O'Brien (born 1958) is a Judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals. O'Brien was born in 1958 in Buffalo, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Le Moyne College and her Juris Doctor from Washington