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 once, when a young Fellow would have lain with her, againt her Will, he beat him o, that he lay ill of it a coniderable Time.

While he lived with her Father, he was look’d upon as one that would be a good Fortune, wherefore it was thought her Father expected a good Match for her; but he poilt all, for without his Conent, he marries a young Fellow, who belonged to the Sea, and was not worth a Groat; which provoked her Father to uch a Degree, that he turned her out of Doors, upon which the young Fellow, who married her, finding himelf diappointed in his Expectation, hipped himelf and Wife, for the Iland of Providence, expecting Employment there.

Here he became acquainted with Rackam the Pyrate, who making Courthip to her, oon found Means of withdrawing her Affections from her Husband, o that he conented to elope from him, and go to Sea with Rackam in Men’s Cloaths: She was as good as her Word, and after he had been at Sea ome Time, he proved with Child, and beginning to grow big, Rackam landed her on the Iland of Cuba; and recommending her there to ome Friends of his, they took Care of her, till he was brought to Bed: When he was up and well again, he ent for her to bear him Company.

The King’s Proclamation being out, for pardoning of Pyrates, he took the Benefit of it, and urrendered; afterwards being ent upon the privateering Account, he returned to his old Trade, as has been already hinted in the Story of Mary Read. In all thee Expeditions, Anne Bonny bore him Company, and when any Buines was to be done in their Way, no Body was more forward or couragious than he, and particularly when they were taken; he and Mary Read, with one more, were all