Database: The Bastard Son of Captain Kidd

England // United Kingdom // 1690

Mary Read was illegitimately born in England at some point between 1685 and 1695, to the widow of a sea captain. Her mother dressed her as a boy in the hope of passing her off as another man's son.

As a teenager, Mary used her skills of disguise to secure a job aboard a ship, and eventually wound up in the British Navy. She met her first husband during the War of Spanish Succession, but after he was killed, she travelled to the West Indies and began a career as a pirate.

Mary resumed dressing as a man, and forged a false identity as James Kidd, the illegitimate son of the infamous pirate William Kidd. She soon found a new direction in life after meeting Ah Tabai, the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood in the West Indies.