by Ben Hughes
multilingual culture and, 121
prone to seismic activity and, 175
silver branding irons and, 101
Tainos population and, 25
vulnerable to attack and, 131
wreck salvaging and, 32, 159
Jamaica Merchant, 42
Jamaican Council, 108, 131
Jamaican National Heritage Trust, 225
Jamaica Station, 218
James, 83
James II, xxiv, 5, 10, 32, 42, 46, 159
Janus, 218
Jersey, 11
Jewish immigration, into England from the Dutch provinces and, 170
Johnson, Thomas, 6, 95, 136
Joseph, 137, 139-141, 143, 158
Kabes, Johnny, 71
Kelly, Smith, 35, 93
Kendall, James, 1, 11-13, 15-16, 108, 147
Kentish Flats, 7
Kessler, Franz, 162
Kidd, William, 19
King Agbangla, 74-75, 78
King Benkos, 122
King Phillip’s War, 159
King’s House, 35, 179, 183, 213
Kingston Bay, xxiii-xxiv, 22, 27, 182-183, 197
Kingston Harbor, 184, 190
King William, 42, 45, 54, 56, 68, 76, 93, 99, 132, 153, 155, 158, 164, 170, 195
King William, 137
Knight, Charles, 155, 177
Komenda Wars, 71
Komóe River, 65
Lamb, Thomas, 192
Lawes, Nicholas, 135, 152, 155, 167-168, 177, 213
Leake, Joshua, 158, 163
Leeward Islands, 20, 26, 129, 138, 146
Leeward Maroons, x, 119, 211-212, 214, 216
Leiden University, 43
Lejeune, Nicolas, 114
León, Juan Ponce de, 20
Lesser Antilles, 29
Lewis, Samuel, 93
Ligon, Richard, 16, 94, 102-105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 120
Lillington, Luke, 209
Lincoln, 199
Lion, 18-19, 93, 143, 158, 164, 218
Littleton, Edward, 109-110
Lloyd, Mordecai, 182
Lloyd, Richard, 152, 154-155, 206-207
Lobby’s Rebellion, 211
Lomax, 82
Long, Edward, 127, 150, 215
Lord Albemarle, 44
Lord Chandos, 8
Lord Mansfield, 220
Lord Rawdon, 153
Lords of Trade and Plantations, 9
Lord Vaughn, 44
Lord Windsor, 28
Louis XIV, xxiv, 5, 24, 144
Louis XVI, 45
Love, Robert, 224
Lowestoffe, 218
Loyal Jamaica, 134-135
Lucena, Judith de, 191, 225
Lucena, Moises de, 49, 189, 191, 225
Ludwell, Phillip, 177
Lynch, Thomas, 30-31
Lyon, 135
Maastricht, siege of, 32
Madagascar, 91, 99
Madeira Merchant, 137
Mainyard, 176
malaria, 16, 58, 70, 76, 82, 101, 165, 218
Manchester Parish, 214
Mantinaneal Bay, 171
Mapuche, 19
Maracaibo, 29
Margaret, 99
Marlin, 139
maroons, 25-26, 39, 75, 118-120, 122, 136, 186, 189, 208, 210-212, 214-216, 225
Marshall, William, 41
Marshalsea Prison, 37, 56
Martinique, 13, 16, 19, 147, 198, 200, 218
Martin, William, 172
Mary, 9-14, 16, 160
Matthews, William, 43
Mayflower, 46
Maynard, Francis, 195
Mediterranean, 164, 205
Mesopotamia, 101-103
Mills, Alice, 128
Milroy, Gilbert, 107
Minho River, 97, 100
Mino, 39
Modyford, Thomas, 28-30, 166
Molesworth, Hender, 10, 31, 35, 49
Monck, Christopher, 31, 43, 159
Monmouth Rebels, 42
Montego Bay, 132
Montserrat, 15, 17, 19-20, 218
Moodie, James, 199
Morant Bay, 142, 171, 223
Morant Bay Rebellion, 224
Mordaunt, 198, 200
Morgan, Henry, 29-30, 32, 37
Morgan’s Line, 37, 180-181
Morley, Christopher Love, 43
Moses, Edward, 138, 145-146, 172, 193-194, 210
Mosquito Coast, 39, 103
mulatto, 16, 39, 71, 93, 104
Mullen, Alan, 9, 11, 18
Musgrave, Simon, 34, 146-147, 151, 154, 163, 165-166, 169, 173, 189
Myngs, Christopher, 27, 29
Nash, Joshua, 183
Navigation Acts, xxiv, 3, 51, 219
Negroe’s River, 171
Nelson, Horatio, 218
Neptune, 192, 198
Neville, Edward, 6, 136, 140, 145, 172, 176, 192, 199
Nevis, 15, 17, 19-20
Newcastle, 46, 158, 162
Newcastle, James, 202
Newfoundland, 6, 46
New Granada, 94, 96
New Model Army, 24
News from Jamaica (Carleton), 41
Niger Delta, 91
Nine Years’ War, xxv, 5, 21, 60, 129, 131, 208-210
Norris, Isaac, 48, 52, 173, 196
Norris, Joseph, 48, 172-173, 177, 180, 185-186, 189, 191, 196
Norris, Martha, 48
Norris, Thomas, 48, 180
Norris, Weamouth, 191
Norwich, 34
Norwood, Richard, 162
Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, 159
Oakley, Edward, 14, 138, 140-143, 145, 148, 193-194
O’Brien, Elizabeth, 9, 54, 164
O’Brien, Murrough, 7
O’Brien’s Bridge, 9
O’Brien, William (Earl of Inchiquin)
arrival in Barbados and, 15-16
conflict with The Assembly and, 156-157
early years of, 7-9
failing health of, 165
French prisoners of war and, 147-148
Huguenots and, 45-46
journey to Spanish Town and, 53
King’s House and, 35
letter to Lords of Trade and, 149
letter to William Blathwayt and, 129
loss of ships and, 134
mutiny of Loyal Jamaica and, 135
presentation of a “Jew Pie” and, 36
purchase of slaves and, 93
success against the French and, 146
success of, 166
taking fight to the French and, 138-142
upgrading the fleet and, 138
O’Bryan, James, 9, 137, 139, 141-142, 144-145, 164, 167, 173
Old Harbour, 49, 55, 100, 125, 136, 201, 204
Onyame, 125
Order of Saint Clara, 13
Orgill, Andrew, 41, 168, 177
Oroonoko (Behn), 85, 89
Ouidah, 71-75, 78, 80-81, 84, 88, 90, 94
Owenton, Jason, 143
Oxford, 152
Palermatan, 18-19
Pallisadoes, xxiii, 37-38, 89, 180, 187, 198
Panama, 30, 47, 96, 122
Papas, 78, 91
Papin, Denis, 162
Pardo, Haham Josiau, 49
Parish Church, 213
Parker, Peter, 218
Parliament’s Navigation Acts, xxiv, 3, 51, 219
Parliament, xxiv-xxv, 3, 7, 155, 221
Passage Fort, 53, 89, 184
Pearl, 83
Peartree, William, 51
Pembroke, 172, 176, 193-194, 200
Penhallow, Charles, 49, 89-93, 207
Pennant, Edward, 98
Pennant, Elizabeth, 98, 213
Penn, William, 23-27, 55, 100
Pepys, Samuel, 7
Petit Guavos, 21, 129-132, 143-144, 148, 165, 171-172, 199-200, 202, 207, 210
Phenix, 160
Phillips, George, 180
Phillips, John, 39-40, 91
Phillips, Thomas, 60-61, 64
-65, 67, 69-70, 73, 75-77, 80-82, 85-87, 91
Phips, William, 159-160, 245n41
“pickaninnies”, high mortality rates of, 104
Pike, Ann, 177
Pike, John, 34, 39, 45, 177, 180, 191
Pike, William, 173
Pitt, Anne, 136
Pitt, Gabriell, 136
Plowman, Daniel, 51
Plymouth Sound, 7, 12
Point Anthony, 131
Point Cagway, 22, 27, 175
Point Morant, 21, 120, 141, 168, 202
Point Pedro Cays, 157-158, 160, 162-163, 170
polygamy, 112
Pomanan, 218
Pompey, 40
Port-de-Paix, 133, 135, 209
Port Emyas, 100
Port Maria, 171
Port Morant, 132, 171, 176, 184, 201-203, 207, 210
Portobelo, xxiv, 10, 29, 31, 47, 51, 55, 148, 157, 164, 172, 200, 210
Port Royal
1680 census and, 40
African divers and, 160
forts and, 36
itinerant mariners and, 50
Jewish population and, 49
London broadsheet about earthquake and, 185
merchants as paramount importance to the economy of, 46
population of, 39
prostitution and, 40-41
rise of the buccaneers and, 27
severe hurricanes and, 213
three markets of, 37-38
turtle meat as diet of the poor and, 38
Pra River, 67
Price, Francis, 119
Prince of Orange, 8, 68
Princesa, 130
Princess Ann, 11
Privy Council, 8-9, 11
Providence Island, 29
Qoudan, Peter, 48
Quacco, 75
Quaker, 11, 138-139, 156, 163
Quakers, 26, 39, 41, 45, 48, 61, 177, 188, 196, 221
Quaqua Coast, 58
Quaquas, 59
Quashie, 101
Queen Anne, 212
Queen Mary, 54, 56, 76, 93, 153, 155, 158, 170, 195, 197
Ramirez, Juan, 25
Rawdon, James, 9, 18, 153
Rebecca, 51
Reeve, George, 165-166
Reserve, 210
Restoration Day, 148
Restoration of 1660, 2
Richard and Sarah, 176, 189, 191-193
Rimes, Henry, 125
Rio Cobre, 53, 184, 191
Rio de la Hacha, 99
Rio Minho, 205-206, 225
Robert, 4
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 106
Robinson, John, 4, 13
Rochester, William, 132
Rock Fort, 218
Rodgers, Jonathon, 136
Rodney, George, 218-219
Rose, Fulke, 93
Rousselet, François Louis de, 5
Royal African Company
arrival of Blossom and, 56
average mortality rate and, 88
Benjamin and, 137
Bridgetown offices and, 16
buying of sick slaves and, 49
caboceers and, 71
Charles Danvers and, 58
Charles Penhallow and, 207
Dutch West India Company rivalry and, 62
English Royal Adventurers and, 10
fear of the Dutch and, 68
four ships arriving in Port Royal and, 164
furnishing two thousand “negroes” for the asiento at Jamaica and, 11
Hannah and, 57-61
Hender Molesworth and, 31
illegal interlopers and, 60
John Atkins and, 72
Komenda factory and, 67
Mediterranean and, 205
monopoly of, 89, 99
Nevis and, 20
planter dissatisfaction and, 98
preventing disease on slave ships and, 86-87
profit margins and, 68
purchase of the Lion and, 19
Santiago Castillo and, 93
slave revolts and, 82
Syam Merchant and, 176
thousand-year monopoly in West African trade and, 2
Walter Ruding and, 145, 178, 189, 195
Warrington and, 163
Royal College of Physicians, 43
Royal Commission, 168
Royal Exchange, 2
Royall, Belinda, 74-75
Royal Navy, xxiii, 3, 5-6, 11, 34, 56, 59, 62, 163, 167, 217-219
Ruby, 218
Ruding, Walter, 49-50, 89-93, 145, 155, 164, 178-179, 189, 195
Ryves, Thomas, 189
Saint Ann’s Parish, 194
Saint Jean, Bernard Jean-Louis de, 210
Saint Malo, 144
Saint Paul, 11
Salisbury, 218
Samuel Barque, 51
San Antonio, 176, 193
San Felipe de Barajas Castle, 95
Sangronis, Francisco Saavedra de, 218
Sanguin River, 58
San Jago de la Vega (Spanish Town), 25-26, 34, 53-54, 97, 107, 119, 124, 136, 152-153, 158, 164, 166-168, 177, 184, 189, 196, 201-204, 216, 225
Santa Marta, 27
Santiago de la Vega, 53
Santo Domingo, 21, 24, 114, 130, 140, 209
Sceptre, 210
Scottish Covenanters, 41
Scrambler, Thomas, 195
Scroope, Robert, 51, 158, 171
Seahorse, 133, 158, 160, 163, 171, 173, 177
Second Anglo-Dutch War, 10, 48, 66, 138
Secundi, 121
Sedgemoor, battle of, 42
Sessarakoo, William Unsah, 75
Sestre Crou, 62
Sewall, Samuel, 52
Sexby, Edward, 7
Sharpe, Samuel, 222-223
Sharp, Granville, 220-221
Shelley, Giles, 51
Sheppey Island, 4
Shirley, Thomas, 171
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (de las Casas), 24
Shovell, Cloudesley, 27
Shuler, Peter, 93
Sixteen Mile Walk, 184, 201
slavery
Coromantees and, 78, 91, 101, 119, 122, 124, 211
experience of Mahi slave girl and, 79
exporting from Gold Coast to the Americas and, 70
extreme punishment and, 115-116
flogging and, 6, 115, 118, 222
force-feeding slaves and, 83
forms of slave resistance and, 117-118
labeling Africans practitioners of cannibalism and, 85
laws against extreme punishment and, 117
Lord Mansfield and, 220
Mahommah Baquaqua’s voyage to the Americas and, 84
Middle Passage diseases and, 84
mulattoes and, 16, 39, 71, 93, 104
music and dance rituals of slaves, 113-114
nomenclature and, 101
rebranding of, 101
rise in prices for, 56
slave dwellings and, 111-112
slave revolts and, 81-82, 105
slaves’ habit of celebrating funerals and, 114
stoicism by slaves during torture and, 116-117
suicide and, 21, 39, 94, 102, 117
Zong and, 220-221
Slave Trade Act, 221
Sloane, Hans, 43-44, 52, 55-56, 91, 102-103, 112-113, 115-116, 152, 165, 176, 195
smallpox, 84, 223
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 221
Sousa, Isaac Rodriguez de, 49, 168
Southampton, 199
Spanish Market Place, 153
Spanish Town, 25-26, 34, 53-54, 97, 107, 119, 124, 136, 152-153, 158, 164, 166-168, 177, 184, 189, 196, 201-204, 216, 225
Speedwell, 51
Speke, 218
Spenser, Edmund, 51
Spragge, Thomas, 131, 133
St. Andrews Parish, 89, 152, 171, 204
St. Ann’s Bay, 194
St. Ann’s Parish, ix, 119, 151, 156, 176, 199
St. Bartholomew, 18, 138
St. Cathe
rine Parish, 29, 34, 53, 55, 89, 103, 151-152, 184, 204
St. Croix, 20, 147
St. David’s Parish, 21, 89, 152, 154, 167, 184, 203, 207
St. Dorothy’s Parish, 55, 89, 204, 225
St. Elizabeth’s Parish, 119, 132, 199, 206, 211
St. Eustatius, 17, 20
St. George Parish, 105, 155, 171, 202-203, 207
St. Jago, 97
St. Jago de la Victoria, 55
St. James Parish, 132
St. John’s Parish, 29, 105, 151, 167
St. Kitts, 15, 17, 20, 24, 138, 147, 218
St. Lucia, 16, 19, 218, 222
St. Malo, 145
St. Mary’s Parish, 41, 44, 119, 155-156, 171, 176, 193, 199, 202, 207
St. Michael’s Alley, 2
St. Paul’s Church, 22, 36, 165, 177-178, 181, 186
St. Thomas Parish, 34, 49, 87, 89, 93, 151, 184, 203, 207, 211, 224
Starr, John, 40
Stede, Edwin, 16, 88
Stedman, John G., 75
Stephens, Jonathon, 95
Straits of Magellan, 19
Straw, Jack, 39
Suasso, Antonio Lopes, 170
Success, 11, 13
Sun Tavern, 7
Sutton, Anna, 97, 213
Sutton, John, 213
Sutton, Judith, 97, 213
Sutton, Sarah, 97, 213
Sutton, Thomas, 97-101, 103-106, 108-109, 122-127, 134, 136, 151, 153-154, 170, 184, 204-206, 211, 213-214, 225, 237n39
Swan, 5-6, 9, 11, 13, 18, 21-22, 33, 94-96, 131, 134, 136-143, 145-146, 150, 163-164, 171-172, 176, 183, 188, 192, 198-199
Swedish Africa Company, 66
Swimmer, Anthony, 93
Syam Merchant, 176, 183, 188, 190
Tainos, 20, 25, 100, 119, 211
Takoradi, 66-67
Tamarind Tree Church, 55
Taylor, John, 38, 43, 53, 112-114, 116, 135, 174
The Tears of the Indians, 24
Téméraire, 200, 202, 205, 207
Tennant, Henry, 98
Tennant, John, 98
Tewk, Henry, 13
Texel, battle of, 138
Thames River, 1, 3-4, 61
Third Anglo-Dutch War, 32
Thistlewood, Thomas, 90, 104, 115-118, 120
Thomas and Elizabeth, 171
Thomas, Dalby, 62
Thorngill, Thomas, 18
Thornton, Daniel, 132
The Three Mariners, 49
Three Rivers, 171
Three Tunns, 34
Tiger, 11
Tigre, 130
Tilley, Jeremiah, 93
Timbuktu, 74
Tolu, 27
Tooth Coast, 91
Tortuga, 26, 131
Towers, John, 168
Trapham, Elizabeth, 180
Trapham, Thomas, 44, 180
Treaty of Ryswick, 208, 210
Trelawny, Edward, 216-217
Trenchard, John, 203
Trinidad, 222
Trinity College, 9
A Trip to Jamaica (Ward), 23
A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (Ligon), 102
True Love, 171, 176, 193-194
Tucker, James, 136
Turner, William, 39
Twi, 65
Tyrrell, Usher, 203
Uffgress, John, 177, 182, 187, 190
Updick, Daniel, 171, 176, 193-194
van Hoorn, Nicholas, 130