Four years' residence in the West Indies / By F.W.N. Bayley.

  • Bayley, F. W. N. (Frederic William Naylor), 1808-1853.
Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Four years' residence in the West Indies / By F.W.N. Bayley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    accession to the throne, and thank him for appoint- ing General Hunter Governor. 1728. A present of £6000 voted to the Governor, extra annual salary of £2500 withdrawn. 1730. Population returned at 7648 whites, 865 free negroes, and 74,525 slaves. 1731. Trade to Jamaica employs 12,000 tons of English shipping. 1732. Moravians send missionaries. The imports from Jamaica to Great Britain at a medium of four years were £539,499 18s. 3Id. 1733. The runaway negroes retake their town in the mountains, which had been forced from them. 1734. Population 7644 whites, 86,546 negroes. Runaway negroes commit various depredations. Their town, called “ Nanny,” is taken by Capt. Stoddart. Island and shipping suffer greatly by a hurricane. 1735. An act passed respecting the sale of slaves. Troops arrive ; runaway negroes desert their chief town and retire to the woods. 1736. Jamaica contains six forts—Fort Charles, Rock Fort, Port Antonio Fort, Fort William, Fort Mo- rant, and the Fort at Carlisle Bay. Population, white inhabitants 76,000; militia, horse and foot, 3000 men; independent com- panies 800. Maroons, under Cudjoe their chief, grow formi- dable ; troops employed to reduce them. 1737. By order of the assembly, barracks fortified with bastions are built near the haunts of the Maroons.