Jonathan Barnet

Jonathan Barnet (1677/78 – 1745)[1][2] was an English privateer in the Caribbean, best known for capturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read.

The Assembly of the Colony of Jamaica gave him a financial reward and a large estate in the parish of St James, where enslaved Africans worked.

Hamilton gave Barnet specific instructions on which flag to fly, on keeping a journal, and where to bring captured prize ships for confirmation,[5] as well as a warning: "You are not on any pretence to committ any acts of hostility, on any of H.M. allies, neuters, friends or subjects.

The Tyger's owners included Daniel Axtell, who also held shares of the privateer (and later pirate) vessels commanded by Leigh Ashworth, James Carnegie, and Samuel Liddell, all of which looted the Spanish wrecks as well.

[8] Barnet may have taken a 1717 pardon offered to all pirates who surrendered within a year: by 1720 his commission had been renewed yet again, this time by Heywood's replacement Governor Nicholas Lawes.

[11] The vessel turned out to be the William, captained by John "Calico Jack" Rackham, who had aboard two female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny.