INTRODUCTION
Aboriginal inhabitants, Arawâks: physical features, language, beliefs, habitations, implements, name of Jamaica, other Arawâk names: Spanish occupation, hatos, towns, buildings, names: English possession, ancient monuments, buildings, slavery, politics, forts, religion, agriculture, education, printing, maps, parishes, counties, place-names, Jamaica overseas 1
I. PORT ROYAL
The Point: Shirley: Jackson: Forts: Residence of the Governor: Church: Buccaneers: Myngs: Morgan: Earthquake of 1692: Spanish bell: Fire of 1703–4: Hurricane of 1722: Attempt on Cartagena, Ogle, Smollett: Rodney: Water-supply: Rodney’s Look-out: Fort Charles: Nelson’s Quarter-deck: Rodney’s victory over De Grasse: the Convoy: Prince William Henry: Lady Nugent: Gosse: Hill: Urgent 45
II. ST. CATHERINE
Passage Fort: Jackson: Penn and Venables: Spanish-Town: Raymond and Tyson: Cathedral, monuments, plate, rectors, Earl of Effingham, Countess of Elgin: House of Assembly: Eagle House: Sir Hans Sloane’s House: King’s House: Rodney Memorial: St. John’s, Guanaboa Vale: Church of St. Dorothy: Colebeck Castle: Galdy’s Tomb: Ferry Inn: Fort Augusta: Rodney’s Look-out: Port Henderson 81
III. KINGSTON
Earthquake, site: Lilly, plan: Fire, 1780: Corporation: Fires, 1843, 1862, 1882: Earthquake, 1907: Names of streets: Parish church, Knight, Lewis, Hakewill, plate, rectors, records, Benbow, monuments: Scotch Church: Headquarters House: Thomas Hibbert: General officers: Old Mico: Blundell Hall: Institute of Jamaica: Arawâk pottery: Chancellor’s purse: maces: Monuments, Sir Charles Metcalfe, Queen Victoria, Edward Jordan, Dr. Bowerbank, Father Dupont, Rev. John Radcliffe, Rev. W. J. Gardner: Wharves 147
IV. ST. ANDREW
Liguanea: Halfway-Tree: Old Burial-Ground: Church of St. Andrew, records, monuments, rectors: Lundie’s pen: King’s House: Admiral’s Pen: Rock Fort: Fort Nugent: Constant Spring: Raymond Hall: Up-Park Camp: Berthaville: Mico College: Stony Hill Barracks: Garden House: Hope: Jamaica College: Lumb drinking-trough: Newcastle: Jewish Burial-Ground: Hunt’s Bay: Kitchen-middens: Norbrook: Hope: Long Mountain: Caves: Dallas Castle: Bloxburgh: Silver Hill: Cane River Falls: Hagley Gap: Catherine’s Peak: Gordon Town: Dallas Castle: Manning’s Hill: Salt Hill: Morce’s Gap: Hardwar Gap: Scarlett 197
V. ST. THOMAS
Name: Yallahs, church, plate: Luke Stokes: Stokes Hall: Stokesfield, Estate accounts: Morant Bay: Rebellion: Eyre, Gordon: Church, Bath, Spring, Court House: Botanical Gardens: Dr. Dancer: Belvedere: Lyssons, Sir John Taylor, Simon Taylor: Hordley, Monk Lewis: Albion: Arawâk remains at Cambridge Hill and Botany Bay: Cow Bay and Bull Bay 236
VI. PORTLAND
Name: Titchfield: Early settlement: School: St. George: Olivier Park: Carder Park: Moore Town: Muirton: Darlingford: Low Layton: Spring Garden: Modyford’s Gully: Balcarres Hill: Seaman’s Valley 254
VII. ST. MARY
Name: Gray’s Inn, Spanish remains: Decoy, Tomb of Sir Charles Price, Gardens: Sir Charles Price’s rat: Agualta Vale: Dryland: Fort Haldane: Prospect: Heywood Hall 259
VIII. ST. ANN
Historic interest: Liberty Hill: Arawâk remains: Dry Harbour: Landing of Columbus, 1494: Don Christopher’s Cove: Residence of Columbus, 1503–4: Mendes, rebellion of Porras, appeal to Hispaniola, bravery of Bartolommeo Columbus: Sevilla Nueva, Sloane’s account, Peter Martyr, Ocho Rios, Chireras: Doyley’s defeat of Sasi: Rio Nuevo in St. Mary, Final defeat of Sasi: Runaway Bay: Sevilla Nueva: Cardiff Hall: Edinburgh Castle, Hutchinson: Moneague Tavern: Forts, Mammee Bay, St. Ann’s Bay, Windsor Fort: Priory: Dixon Pen: Geddes: York Castle: Dry Harbour Caves: Walton, Jamaica Free School 267
IX. TRELAWNY
Falmouth: Martha Brae: Bryan Castle, Bryan Edwards and his writings: Fort Dundas: Hyde Hall: Kitchen-middens 306
X. ST. JAMES
Montego Bay: Close Harbour: Church, rectors: Mrs. Rosa Palmer: Maroons, Block House, Maroon Town, Accompong, War, Walpole, Treaty, Balcarres, Gillespie, Maroons in Nova Scotia: Duckett’s Spring, the Scarletts: Rose Hall: Arawâk Middens and Caves 319
XI. HANOVER
Lucea, church: Rusea: Shettlewood 343
XII. WESTMORELAND
Savanna-la-Mar, church: Bluefields and Gosse: Cornwall and Monk Lewis: Roaring River, Fort William and Williamsfield and Beckford 346
XIII. ST. ELIZABETH
Black River: Munro and Dickenson: Lacovia: Catadupa 369
XIV. MANCHESTER
Mandeville: Sir William Scarlett: Bridges 372
XV. CLARENDON
Carlisle Bay: Vere Church, rectors, monuments: Church of the White Cross: Morgan’s Valley: Chapelton Church: Halse Hall: Longville: Kellets 373
INDEX 398
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
With the exception of the full page-plates and the two maps, the illustrations are from sketches by Mrs. Lionel Lee.
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Arawâk Bowl 1
Mealing-stone 2
Arawâk Pestle 3
Sketch Map of Jamaica, circa 1661 7
Branding-iron 15
Sketch Map of Jamaica, circa 1866 41
PORT ROYAL Nelson’s Quarter-deck 68
Kingston Harbour in 1774. From an engraving in Long's "History of Jamaica" facing 70
Figure-head of the Aboukir 71
ST. CATHERINE Passage Fort 83
Cathedral, Spanish Town 90
King’s House, Spanish Town 104
Court House, Spanish Town 104
Rodney’s Statue, Spanish Town 105
House of Assembly, Spanish Town 105
The Lady Juliana in tow of the Pallas in 1782. From an aquatint by Robert Dodd facing 122
Colebeck Castle 134
The Ferry Inn 139
KINGSTON Kingston, Harbour Street in 1820. _From a coloured engraving in Hakewill’s “Picturesque Tour of Jamaica”_ facing 150
The Parish Church 157
Date-Tree Hall in 1906 180
Statue of Sir Charles Metcalfe 187
Statue of Queen Victoria 194
ST. ANDREW Halfway-Tree Church in 1906 200
King Edward’s Clock Tower, Halfway-Tree 208
Admiral’s Pen 211
Rock Fort 212
Fort Nugent 215
Raymond Hall 219
Up-Park Camp in 1840. From a coloured lithograph by Joseph B. Kidd (Frontispiece)
ST. THOMAS Stokes Hall 241
Albion Estate 252
PORTLAND Port Antonio in 1770. From an engraving facing 256
ST. MARY Tomb of Sir Charles Price 261
ST. ANN Dry Harbour 268
Don Christopher’s Cove 273
Rio Novo 285
Cardiff Hall 294
Moneague Tavern in 1844. From a daguerreotype by Adolphe Duperly facing 302
Slave Punishment Cell at Geddes 303
TRELAWNY Bryan Castle 307
ST. JAMES Block-house, Maroon Town 324
Rose Hall 341
WESTMORELAND Fort William, Aqueduct 360
Fort William Estate, from the site of old Great House 361
Roaring River Estate in 1774. From an engraving by Thomas Vivares after a painting by George Robertson facing 364
Savanna-la-Mar in 1840. From a coloured lithograph by Joseph B. Kidd facing 366
CLARENDON Carlisle Bay 375
Vere Parish Church, at the Alley 382