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William's operations were not confined to his London business: he built ships and traded to Guinea, Portugal, Spain, and the West Indies. His fleet at one time numbered twenty vessels, with nearly five thousand sailors on board. About 1624 one of his ships discovered an uninhabited island, to which Courten gave the name of Barbadoes.
The History of the Island of Antigua, One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time; Caribbeana: Being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies. Six vols. Mitchell Hughes & Clarke, London, 1909–19.
The West Indies Federal Archives Centre is the official depository of records from the defunct West Indies Federation. [1] The centre was opened in 2004, and is part of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados. Prior to the centre's opening, the West Indies archives were held by the Barbados National Archives.
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
Amaryllis Renn Phillips was born into slavery in 1745 [Notes 1] on Barbados, during British colonial rule [2] where records indicate she was a mulatto. [3] [4] She was purchased by Robert Collymore in 1780, from Rebecca Phillips, a free coloured hotelier, [4] [5] along with her five mulatto children, [5] four of whom were Robert's children. [6]
The British Windward Islands was an administrative grouping of British colonies in the Windward Islands of the West Indies, existing from 1833 until 3 January 1958 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (the seat of the governor until 1885, when it returned to its former status of a completely separate colony), Tobago (until 1889, when it ...
In about 1650 Yeamans migrated to Barbados, [2] and within a decade he had become a major landholder there (he had held land in Barbados since 1638) a colonel of the colonial militia, judge of a local court of common pleas, [1] and by July 1660 he was serving on the Barbadian council.
The name "Barbados" is from either the Portuguese term os barbados or the Spanish equivalent, los barbados, both meaning "the bearded ones". [12] [13] It is unclear whether "bearded" refers to the long, hanging roots of the bearded fig-tree (Ficus citrifolia), a species of banyan indigenous to the island, or to the allegedly bearded Kalinago (Island Caribs) who once inhabited the island, or ...