![]() ![]() ![]() Some liberties have been taken in the telling of the story. The End of Calico Jack is a fictional retelling of the life of Calico Jack, Ann Bonny, and Mary Read based on historical research. The men of our crew keep getting stabbed or shot or hung. You're welcome to climb aboard and sail with us. If I make it off this ship alive, you'll read how one of the largest pirate treasures ever taken wound up in a cave off the southwestern tip of Hispaniola The bad news is, I'm now sailing around the Spanish Main with Calico Jack, Ann Bonny, and Scary Mary Read. The good news is, I found the ship's log in a cave on Coffin Cay with the exact course and route and longitude and latitude of where the Nuestra SeƱora De Riqueza would be on October 16, 1720. I was aboard the evening we stole the William. With a nefarious crew, Calico Jack voided his pardon to the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers, and went hunting for merchant ships. In October 1720, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read stole the William, a 12 ton sloop. ![]()
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