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Kate Bonnet

"She carried a fishing rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no basket in which to carry away her finny prizes." It was the first quarter of the seventeenth century in Barbados, and Mistress Kate was the pretty daughter of a notorious pirate with her eye on a young, handsome and prosperous farmer. This is an account of the fictional daughter of infamous crony of Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet (whose only real-life daughter was named Mary). - Summary by Lynne Thompson (10 hr 43 min)

Chapters

Two Young People, A Ship and A Fish

A Fruit-Basket and A Friend

The Two Clocks

On The Quarter-Deck

An Unsuccessful Errand

A Pair of Shoes and Stockings

Kate Plans

Ben Greenway is Convinced Bonnet is a Pirate

Dickory Sets Forth

Captain Christopher Vince

Bad Weather

Face to Face

Captain Bonnet Goes to Church

A Girl to the Front

The Governor of Jamaica

A Question of Etiquette

An Ornamented Beard

I Have No Right; I am a Pirate

The First New Lieutenant

One North, One South

A Projected Marriage

Blade to Blade

The Address of the Letter

Belize

Wise Mr. Delaplaine

Dickory Stretches His Legs

A Girl Who Laughed

Lucilla's Ship

Captain Ichabod

Dame Charter Makes a Friend

Mr. Delaplaine Leads a Boarding Party

The Delivery of the Letter

Blackbeard Gives Greenway Some Difficult Work

Captain Thomas of the Royal James

A Chapter of Happenings

The Tide Decides

Bonnet and Greenway Part Company

Again Dickory Was There

The Blessings Which Come From the Death of the Wicked

Captain Ichabod Puts the Case