Infamously Mary Read! - Mary's mother had an affair, that resulted in the birth of Mary. Mary's half brother died in childhood, and Mary was passed off as the boy in order to receive money from the deceased boy's paternal Grandmother. Her 'Tom-Boy' appearance stuck, and by the early 1700s she headed to The New West Indies to join in on piracy. Fearless, with a sharp tongue and a fighter equal to all the men, she was pregnant by 1721, and died in prison, St. Catherine's Jamaica.