QMR Mary Read Traditional Cache
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QMR - The Quest for Morgan's Rum
Mary Read is remembered today as one of the two most well-known women pirates active during the pirates' heyday during the early 18th century. Her pirate career was very short and pretty uneventful to other pirates. She was however, able to hide her true identity by disguising herself as a man since the clothes of the day was often loose and baggy. She also carried her own weight in sailing and in combat just as well as any of the male crewmen, and in some cases, much better!
Mary Read was born around London to a mother who had an affair after her husband disappeared at sea. In order to get money, the mother made Mary dress a boy to pretend that she was her son who had died. At 13, Read was sent to be a footboy to a French woman but she ran off and joined a man-of-war crew still disguised as a man. Tired of this as well, she enlisted in the army and there met her soon to be husband. The two were discharged and they took up a residence near the Castle of Breda, but her husband died shortly after and she decided once again to disguise herself as man and eventually boarded a ship to the West Indies. While there, a vessel she was on was captured by the pirate Calico Jack and she became one of the pirate crew.
Many thanks to Mandarin Lake for placing the original cache.
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