A ne'er-do-well pirate/sailor named James Bonny
married Anne in an attempt to steal the plantation but Anne's father instead
disowned her. Bonny then took Anne to the Bahamas where he turned informer to
Governor Woodes Rogers, turning in any sailor he didn't like as a pirate for a
handsome reward.
Anne quickly grew to dislike her spineless
husband and quickly caught the eye of one Calico Jack Rackham, a pirate of some
renown. Governor Rogers had recently passed an amnesty for pirates which left
Bonny out of work. The admiration between Anne and Calico was mutual. Calico
Jack was a handsome man who knew how to spend money as well as steal it. Anne
was a well endowed lass with a fiery spirit and a temper that matched that of
any man.
In any event, Calico offered to buy Anne from
Bonny but Bonny instead took the matter up with Governor Rogers, who said that
Anne was to be flogged and returned to her true husband. That night Calico and
Anne slipped out in the harbor, stole a sloop and began a life of piracy
together.
Anne fought in men's clothing, was an expert
with pistol and cutlass and considered as dangerous as any male pirate. She was
fearless in battle and often was a member of any boarding party.
Anne and Mary Read, were also captured but, upon capture, confessed their "sex" and pleaded to be tried separately after they gave birth. (Both women were pregnant at the time). Both received separate trials from the men but were still sentenced to hang. Mary Read escaped the hangman by dying from fever while in jail. Anne however, received several stays of execution before mysteriously vanishing from official records. It is believed that her father, who had contacts in the island, forgave his daughter for her acts and ransomed her back to the Carolinas where she assumed a new name and a new life.
Source: http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/pirates/anne.htm