Database: Lucy Baldwin

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Born: 1689, West Indies
Died: ????

Lucy Baldwin was born on Black Island in the West Indies to the daughter of wealthy local planter Theodore Braddock. Her mother died while she was still very young, and her grandfather took over the duty of raising her. Her father, John Baldwin, was either absent or drunk for most of her childhood.

Possessed of a naturally adventurous spirit and struggling with the implications of growing up effectively orphaned, Lucy took to carousing in taverns all across the Indies, gaining passage on merchant ships frequenting the local trade routes. Inevitably, she fell in with pirates, and joined one of the crews sailing out of Havana. Her skills at joinery and shooting learned from her grandfather soon made her sought after as a shipwright, and for several years she moved between pirate crews, gaining a name for her hard work and ferocious reveling.

When Lucy's grandfather died unexpectedly, she was accused of his murder and caught by the British pirate hunter Lieutenant Robert Maynard. Edward Kenway heard of her capture and hoping she could be convinced to join the Jackdaw as shipwright, freed her before the authorities could hang her. Lucy was non-committal about joining Edward, but offered him a deal—if he would help recover her grandfather's inheritance before her father could steal it, she would join his crew.