Mary Read posed herself as a male cross dresser for financial reasons. (From her mother who dressed her as a boy in order to get money and so she became a man for life). But she ran away and joined the British navy as a teenger. She was on the Flemish Calvary for a while. Then Mary was on the Dutch merchant vessal doing some bussiness and it was there that the pirate captian Charles Vane kinapped her aboard his English ship. She was given the choice as either facing execution or joing his crew, and she chose the latter. She went to the Carribean islands, looting, killing, and binge drinking with her fellow mates, a reputation she had created for herself, as well as other pirates of that time who knew her.
By Pascual Marin
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