The First New Lieutenant

Kate Bonnet

by Frank R. STOCKTON (1834 - 1902)

"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

Listen next episodes of Kate Bonnet:
A Chapter of Happenings , A Girl Who Laughed , A Projected Marriage , Again Dickory Was There , Belize , Blackbeard Gives Greenway Some Difficult Work , Blade to Blade , Bonnet and Greenway Part Company , Captain Ichabod , Captain Ichabod Puts the Case , Captain Thomas of the Royal James , Dame Charter Makes a Friend , Dickory Stretches His Legs , Lucilla's Ship , Mr. Delaplaine Leads a Boarding Party , One North, One South , The Address of the Letter , The Blessings Which Come From the Death of the Wicked , The Delivery of the Letter , The Tide Decides , Wise Mr. Delaplaine