Rachel Wall was born Rachel Schmidt in 1760 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on a farm whose parents were religious in their beliefs but she did not care for this lifestyle and longed for the sea. What set her on this path began later when accosted by a group of other girls and was saved from them by George Wall who she eventually wed. They relocated to the Boston area and George signed on to a fishing vessel later led him and a few of his companions to think it was a profitable idea to become pirates instead. With a ship and small crew continued this quest in hopes of fame and fortune in the future and using the ruse of a ship in distress lured other vessels to help and then pounced upon the unwary seamen which were robbed and murdered.

This limited success gained them more boats and acts of murder in 1781 and 1782 of the crew and female companions. The fate of this pirate enterprise took a turn for the worse when he and his crew were lost at sea and Rachal had to resort to thievery at the Boston port. Her savagery came to like when a woman she sought for a personal clothing item was attacked by her ending with her mutilating the victim and she was captured. At the trial, she wanted to be associated with being a pirate and the verdict returned a guilty response and was sentenced to hang which was carried out in 1789 and was the final act of hanging a woman in that state.


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