Stede Bonnet (1688[1] – 10 December 1718)[2 ...
wikipedia - 20 Apr 2022Stede Bonnet (1688[1] – 10 December 1718)[2][a] was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called "The Gentleman Pirate"[3] because he was a moderately wealthy land-owner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados, and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694. On November 21, 1709, twenty-one year old Stede Bonnet married sixteen-year old Mary Allamby.[4]
