Anne Bonny or of her execution. This has fed speculation that her father ransomed her, that she might have returned to her husband, or even that she resumed a life of piracy under a new identity. An article from 2015 called "Anne Bonny: Irish American Pirate" stated that after Bonny's release from prison, she returned to South Carolina where she wed and started a family. Some rumours say that Bonny died in prison, while other speculate that she escaped prison and reverted to her life as a pirate. Although there is no official account of Bonny's death, some historians have claimed that
Mary Grace has copies of this print and another, again after Mary Grace, of Thomas Bradbury, but engraved by Jonathan Spilsbury. In about 1770 Thomas Grace died leaving property in Hackney but she had other property by 1799 or 1800 as she died at Weymouth Street in Marylebone leaving £1300. In 1785 her own self-portrait was engraved and published. 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