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 Kovar Mary Grace Kovar Mary Grace Kovar (July 6, 1929 – September 21, 2015) was an American biostatistician. Kovar worked as chief of the Analytical Coordination Branch of the Division of Analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics. For many years she was the coordinator of "Health, United States", a series of books reporting the health statistics of Americans. By 1996, she had retired from the NCHS, and had became a senior research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. She was a vice president at NORC by 2000. She married (as his second wife) another biostatistician at the