A General History of the Pyrates: / from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time

by Daniel Defoe

The LIFE of MARY READ.

MARY Read’s Birth, [157]. Reasons for dressing her in Breeches, [158]. Waits upon a Lady; goes into the Army, [159]. Her Behaviour in several Engagements, ib. She falls in Love with her Comrade, ib. Her Sex discovered; the two Troopers married, [160]. Settles at Breda, ib. Her Husband dies, she reassumes the Breeches, ib. Goes to Holland. To the West-Indies, [161]. Turns Pyrate. Anne Bonny, another Pyrate, falls in Love with her, [162]. Her Adventures to [165].