Jonathan Barnet

Jonathan Barnet
Born1677/78
Died1728 (aged 50–51)
Montego Bay, Jamaica
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Privateer, slaveholder
Years active1712–1720
EraGolden Age of Piracy
Known forCapturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read
Piratical career
Base of operationsCaribbean
CommandsTyger
Cover page from the transcript of Rackham, Read, and Bonny's 1721 trial

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.[3]

  1. ^ Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica, 3 April 1745, p. 678.
  2. ^ "Jonathan Barnet", Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146662203 Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. ^ Michael Sivapragasam, "Becoming 'Structurally White' in Eighteenth Century Jamaica", Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and Caribbean Sciences, ed. by Nicholas Faraclas, etc (Curacao/Puerto Rico: University of Curacao, 2022), p. 122.