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94.

HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF THE HONBLE. RICHARD MILL, ESQ., MEMBER OF COUNCIL, RECEIVER GENERAL, AND LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 16th DAY OF JUNE, 1739, AGED 60 YEARS.

Brass. Arms, Ermine, a fesse between three pheons.

95.

(Ab.) MR. WILLIAM MERRICK DIED 1714 AGED 49 & HIS 3 SONS & 3 DAURS BY ANN HIS WIFE; AND A GRANDDR ELIZABETH DAUR OF JOHN & MARX, DIED 1728. AGED 2 YEARS.

W. M. Slab.

96.

(Ab.) MRS. ANN MARCH, WIFE OF FOSTER MARCH ESQ &C OB 1739 AET 47 MRS SARAH SPENCER, WIFE OF MR. JOHN SPENCER DAUGHTER OF AFORESAID FOSTER MARCH OB 1740 AET 21 MISS ANN SPENCER DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND SARAH SPENCER OB 1724 AET 35.

M. Mont. Arms, Argent, a cross moline between four lions' heads erased gules, a mullet for difference.

GEORGE MARCH, a merchant, had a pass in 1652, to transport himself and family, to the Island of St. Christopher. C.S.P.

The family of Foster March was of some local distinction.

The name was originally Foster, March having been subsequently assumed. This family was related to that of Barham, as already shown.

97.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID MILLIGAN ESQUIRE SON OF THE LATE ROBERT MILLIGAN ESQUIRE OF LONDON MERCHANT, BORN IN THAT CITY THE 27th OF APRIL 1789 DIED IN JAMAICA AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS ON THE 16th OF FEBRUARY 1818. HE LEFT HIS OWN COUNTRY TO ATTEND UPON A BELOVED BROTHER, WHO DIED AT SEA ON HIS WAY TO THIS ISLAND FOR THE RECOVERY OF HIS HEALTH AND WHOM HE SURVIVED ONLY A FEW MONTHS. HE WAS A MAN OF STRICT INTEGRITY, HUMANE, GENEROUS, DISINTERESTED AND AFFECTIONATE, ESTEEMED BY HIS FRIENDS, AND BELOVED BY HIS FAMILY; AT WHOSE DESIRE THIS MEMORIAL


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OF HIS WORTH IS PLACED ON THESE SACRED WALLS, NEAR WHICH HE IS BURIED, IN A LAND WHERE HE EXPERIENCED UNBOUNDED HOSPITALITY AND KINDNESS.

W. M. Tablet. 2ndly, 1 & 4, between two spears in pale, a dexter hand. in chief, and a heart in base. 2 & 3, A lion rampant within a border engrailed charged with four mullets and four lozenges alternately.

Regnart, Sculpt.

ROBERT MILLIGAN, of London, merchant, was Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company, when the first stone of that magnificent undertaking was laid on July 12, 1800, by the concurring hands of the Lord Chancellor (Wedderburn), Lord Loughborough, the Right Hon. William Pitt, George Hibbert, Chairman of the Company, and himself. Mr. Milligan was the principal promoter of the work, and a noble bronze statue erected at the entrance of the dockyard, perpetuates his fame.

Mr. Milligan carried on an extensive and lucrative business in Kingston, Jamaica, under the firm of Dick and Milligan."Roby.

98.

MISTAKE NOT READER, FOR HERE LYES NOT ONELY THE DECEASED BODY OF THE HONOBLE SR THOMAS MODYFORD BARRONETT, BUT EVEN THE SOULE AND LIFE OF ALL JAMAICA, WHO FIRST MADE IT WHAT IT NOW IS. HERE LYES THE BEST AND LONGEST GOVERNOUR, THE MOST CONSIDERABLE PLANTER, THE ABLEST AND MOST UPRIGHT JUDGE THIS ISLAND EVER INJOYED HE DYED THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER 1679.

B. M. Slab. Arms, Ermine, on a bend a mullet between two garbs ; the baronet's badge in the dexter chief. Impaling a chev. between three palmers, scrips. Crest, A garb.

HERE ALSO LYES SR THOMAS MODYFORD JUNR BARRONETT, THAT HOPEFUL AND FLOURISHING BRANCH WHICH, THE ROOT BEING DEAD, SCONE AFTER WITHERED, WHO AS THEY LIVED IN CONTINUALL UNITY WERE NOT EVEN IN DEATH TO BE SEPERATED. HE DYED THE NINETEENTH OF OCTOBER 1679.

SIR THOMAS, by his own sole authority, twice proclaimed war against the Spaniards, but in so doing, and in his encouragement of the Buccaneers, he was countenanced by Charles ll., who empowered him "to commission whatever persons he thought good to be partners with his majesty in the plunder, 'they finding victuals, wear and tear.' So that his majesty entered very seriously into the privateering business, and held this reputable partnership for some years."Appendix to Long, vol. i.

Sir Thornas Modyford, like his brother, Sir James Modyford, Bart., was also Governor of Jamaica. He was created a baronet March 1st, 1663-4; married Elizabeth, daughter of Lewin Palmer, Esq., of Devonshire; and died in Jamaica, according to his epitaph, in 1679.

His successors matched with the families of Sir Thomas Norton, Bart., Guy of Barbados, Hathenstall of London, and lastly, of Sir William Beeston, Knt., Governor


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of Jamaica, whose daughter and heiress, Jane, married Sir Thomas Modyford, fifth and last Baronet, and on the death of the latter she married Charles Long, Esq., of Jamaica.

Sir Thomas, the first Baronet, was one who moved with the times, and, although a subscriber to the loyal defiance sent to the summons of Sir George Ayscue, we find him the following year assuring President John Bradshaw that his master's counsels tend to the good of the English nation (S. P. 0. Cal., 1652), and that the "people of Barbadoes would delight to have the same form of government as England;" and declares .that the powerful regicide had " sweetly captivated " his mind by his " unexpected civilities."

He seems to have had strong prejudices against the Irish; and was a Member of the Council of Barbados, in 1660, which decided that no Irishman was to be commander, or sharer of any boat belonging to the Island. He was afterwards Governor of Barbados.*

99.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF DAME ELIZABETH THE WIFE OF SR. THOMAS MODYFORD BARRONETT GOVERNOUR OF HIS MAJESTIES ISLAND OF JAMAYCA WH0 DIED THE 12th OF NOVEMBER 1668 BEING THE 29th YEARE OF THEIR HAPPY WEDLOCKE. HER LIFE WAS PURE, AS CLEARE HER FAME - NONE ERE THOUGHT EVILL OF THIS DAME.

Arms, Ermine, on a bend azure, between two garbs or, a mullet argent.

HIS was Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Lewin Palmer, Esq., of Devonshire, who died ... 1668. There was a large family of this name, in the parish of St. James, one of whose monuments, by Flaxman, is in that parish. John Palmer, Chief justice of Jamaica, married Mary Ballard, daughter of Colonel Peter Beckford.

100.

HERE LYETH INTERR'D THE BODY OF JOSE, PH MAXWELL ESQR SECRETARY OF THIS ISLAND, WHO DIED THE 9th OF JULY 1735 AGED 51 YEARS.

W. M. Slab.

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*"At Lord Berkeley's I dined with Sir Thomas Modiford, late Governor of Jamaica, and with Colonel Morgan," &c. Evelyn, 1671, Sept. 21. " 1 was at the wedding of my nephew, John Evelyn, of Wooton, married by the Bishop of Rochester, in Henry the Seventh's Chapel. The solemnity was kept with a few friends only at Lady Beckford's, the lady's mother." Evelyn, 1681.


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101.

(Ab.) .... MARY MCLARTY, ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE HON. CHARLES MCLARTY, AND MARY MORALES, BORN ON THE 9th FEB. 1838 & DIED, 16th JUNE 1857.

102.

(Ab.) .... BOSWELL MIDDLETON ESQ, LATE ADVOCATE GENERAL OF THIS ISLAND, WHO DIED HERE, DURING THE GREAT CHOLERA EPIDEMIC, ON THE 16th DAY OF MAY 1854 . .. . AN ABLE & SUCCESSFUL MEMBER OF THE BAR; AND ONE OF THE MOST GENEROUS AND INDEPENDENT MEN OF HIS TIME.

Ab.) THE SON OF THOMAS MASY OB. 1693.

(Ab.) DANIEL MASTERS, ESQ OB. 1704-5 AET. 46

Arms. A lion rampant guardant; in dexter chief, a mullet of six points pierced. Crest, Two serpents.

105.

ON PROCUL AB HOC MARMORE CONDUNTUR CINERES GULIELMI NEDHAM ARMIGERl QUI SPATIO VITAE FELICI BENE PERACTO AETERNAM EXPECTANS BEATITUDINEM RECESSIT.BEATUS IN HAC VITA FUIT QUOD IN DEO SEMPER ESSENT SPES, AMOR, VENERATIO:QUOD IN SE FUERIT ANIMUS FELIX ATQUE PLACENS. CONJUX AMANS, BENEVOLUS PATERATUS IN SERVOS JUSTISSIMUS. QUOD DOMUM SUIS, VICINITATEM OMNIBUS CONSERVAVERIT PLACIDISSIMAM MULTIS AMICITIAM, PLURIMIS AMOREM NULLI INFERENS INIMICITIAS AUT ODIUM. QUOD SERVUS PATRIAE FIDUS SEMPER PARATUS, MAXIME VOLENS, ET, QUANTUM POTUIT, UTILIS QUOD MULTOS ANNOS JUDICIS OFFICIUM PLURIMOS SUMMI JUSTICIARII INTEGER AGERET. QUOD AB UNA PATRIX VOCE TER ELECTUS PROLOCUTOR COMITIALIS QUOD UNUS E CONCILIO A REGE SUO HONORATE AVOCATUS ET PRIVATO DIGNATUS FUERIT SIGILLO QUOD VITAE VIGORE PENITUS EXTINCTO SERVITIUM PATRIAE CUM VITA IPSA TANDEM FINIERITPRIMO DIE JULII MENSIS ANNO DOMINI 1746 AETATIS 77 H0C MARMOR POSUIT FIDELE IN MEMORIAM. PARENTUM CARISSIMORUM GULIELMI NEDHAM, ET OLIVIAE MATRIS, QUAE EODEM IN LOCO DEPOSITA JACET, FILIUS HAMPSONIUS NEDHAM.

M. Mont.; Arms, Argent, on a bend engrailed, between two deers' heads cabossed sable, attired or. Crest, A phoenix gules, in flames proper.*

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*See Burke's " Landed Gentry," " Peerage," and "Baronetage."


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(Ab.) GEORGE NEALE DIED MARCH YE 23d 1708/9.

Stone Slab.

HERE LYETH H. N.

B. M. Slab.

N.B. Supposed to be the burial place of Hampson Nedham.Vide pedigree of Long, &c.

108.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF ORGILL SENR. WHO DEPARTED ............THE 19th OF SEPTEMBER 168...

B. M. Slab.

MOST probably this was Andrew Orgill, who was Member of Assembly twice for St. George, and three or four times for St. Mary. Andrew Orgill, probably the junior, was returned for St. Mary, in the Assembly of 13th Jan., 1702-3 Journal of the House of Assembly. William Anderson Orgill, late Custos of St. George, was probably a descendant. Roby.

109.

(Ab.) MR. GEORGE OSBORNE DIED 1695, IN HIS 56th YEAR.

There was a John Osborne killed in the expedition under Penn and Venables, in 1655 ; but it is more probable that the family in question came at a later period from Barbados.

B. M. Slab; Arms, Quarterly ermine and on a cross five annulets. Crest, A hippopotamus.

110.

NEAR THIS PLACE LYES INTERRD THE BODY OF SAMUEL OSBORNE ESQ, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 26th 1723, AGED 36. AND LIKEWISE YE BODY OF ELIZABETH SPRUCE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECR 19 1725 IN YE 55th YEAR OF HER AGE.

M. Mont.; Arms, Quarterly, ermine and azure, a cross or.

IN the Calendars of State Papers, frequent mention is made, early in the seventeenth century, of a family of this name


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which was raised to the baronetage; and also of a Captain Christopher Osborne, who does not appear to have been too adventurous. Pet. of Capt. Squibb, July 5, 1626, Cal. S. P.

Roger Osborne, Governor of Montserrat, in 1654, (an Irishman, and probably a member of the wellknown Wexford family of the same name), was accused of a barbarous and inhuman murder " in that year.

111.

FRAGMENT of armorial sculpture, probably on the tomb of a person apparently named PALMER, as indicated by the sculptured arms.

Arms, A chevron between three rudely represented escallops or palmer's scrips.*

112.

MARY WIFE OF DAVID PUGH ESQ, DIED 1710 IN HER 29th YEAR HER MOTHER MARY WATSON DIED 1691 AGED 33 ALSO THE BODY OF MARY MARTIN, BESIDE ARCHER MARTIN ESQR, HER FORMER HUSBAND, WHO DIED 1703.

B. M. Slab.; Arms. A lion passant between three fleurs de lys : impaling, on a cross between four fleurs de lys, a crescent. Crest, A demi-lion, holding in his jamb, a fleur de lys.

113.

(Ab.) MR. ROBERT PITCAIRN DIED 22 JULY 1799 AGED 62

C. Y.

HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF ELIZABETH PESTELL WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 31st OF DECEMBER ANNO 1710.

HERE ALSO RESTS INTERR'D YE BODY OF MR. BEAUMONT PESTELL WHO DIED THE 4th DAY OF SEPR 1714 IN YE FIFTYSIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE AND YE SECOND YEAR OF HIS CHURCHWARDENSH1P IN WCH OFFICE HE INDUSTRIOUSLY ASSISTED TOWARDS YE REBUILDING OF THIS CHURCH.

ALSO BEAUMONT SON OF ALGR & JANE PESTELL BORN YE 23d DAY OF OCTR 1721 AND DY'D YE 29th OF NOVR 1724. B. M. Slab.

UNDER THE PAVEMENT OF THE PEW BENEATH THIS MONUMENT ERECTED TO HER MEMORY BY HER AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND THE HONOURABLE CHARLES PRICE ESQR SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY LIE THE REMAINS OF MRS ELIZABETH HANNAH PRICE DAUGHTER OF JOHN HUDSON GUY ESQR AND ELIZABETH HIS

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See these Arms impaled at No. 98, p. 60.


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WIFE. ENDOWED WITH UNCOMMON SENSIBILITY AND FORTITUDE OF MIND SHE EXHIBITED AN AMIABLE EXEMPLAR OF CONSTANCY IN LOVE AND SINCERITY IN FRIENDSHIP SHE DIED JULY 5th 1771 IN THE 34th YEAR OF HER AGE.

THE Hon. Charles Price was second baronet, and married the widow of John Woodcock, Esq. He died s. p. in 1778, when he was succeeded by his brother, Sir Rose Price, third and last baronet.

Francis Price, a captain in the army under Venables at the capture of Jamaica, married the widow of Lieutenant Colonel "Rose, also one of the conquerors of that Island, and the scion of an ancient family long settled in the counties of Dorset, and Gloucester." By Sarah, daughter of P. Edmunds, Esq., of Jamaica, he was father of Charles, the first baronet, whose son, as above, succeeded him.

115.

HERE LYETH INTERR'D THE BODY OF THOMAS PRICE ESQ, SON OF THE HONOURABLE COLL CHARLES PRICE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, THE 20th DAY OF MAY 1731, AGED 20 YEARS.

Arms. A chev. between three spear heads.... Crest, A wyvern's head erased ......

116.

HERE LYES THE BODY OF THE HONBLE FRANCIS ROSE, ESQ LATE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF THIS ISLAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 20th OF NOVEMBER 1720 IN THE 67th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

W. M. Mont.; Arms, sable, on a bend argent, three roses gules.

FRANCIS ROSE represented St. Thomas-in-the-Vale in two Assemblies, 4th May, 1693, and 27th Sept., 1698 ; and St. Catherine in three, 24th June, 1701, 17th March, 17012, and 6th Aug., 1702, on which last date he was elected Speaker of the House. In the Assembly of Jan. 13, 17023, he was chosen Member for St. George, and on the 27th of May, 1703, was called up to the Council, of which body he died President. In 1714 he gave a very handsome chandelier to this church. Roby.

See, also, Burke's Peerage (Harrington), Baronetage (Buller East), and Landed Gentry" (Hall).


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117.

NEAR THIS PLACE LYES INTERRED YE BODY OF THOMAS ROSE ESQR WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 12th OF NOV. 1724 AGED 35 YEARS.

M. Mont.; Arms, Sable, on a bend argent, three roses gules . impaling, barry of six, argent and gules, a canton of the second.

118.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MRS ELIZABETH ROSE LATE WIFE OF THE HONBLE THOMAS ROSE ESQ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 8th DAY OF OCTOBER 1722, AGED 25 YEARS.

W. M. Slab. Arms On a bend three roses : impaling, barry gules and argent a canton of the second.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROSE, the founder of this family in Jamaica, was one of the officers under Venables at the conquest of the Island.

119.

(Ab.) HIC SEPULTUS EST JOHANNES VEZEY RENNALLS, ARTIS MEDICINALIS ET CHIRURGICAE PROFESSOR. NATUS 9 DIES JULII 1743: OBIIT ... DIE OCTOBRIS 1794.

120.

HENRY RENNALLS DIED 1797: JOSEPH RENNALLS 1798: AMELIA VEZEY RENNALLS 1804 THE OLDEST NOT 5 YEARS OF AGE.

Stone Slab.

121.

TO THE MEMORY OF STEPHEN RICHARD REDWOOD ESQRE WHO WAS BORN IN SPANISH TOWN ON THE 1st OF DECEMBER 1726, AND DIED ON THE 8th OF DECEMBER 178I, AND WAS, FOR MANY YEARS, ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES IN ASSEMBLY FOR ST THOMAS IN THE VALE.

ALSO, TO THE MEMORY OF HIS SON THE HONOURABLE PHILIP REDWOOD, BARRISTER AT LAW, WHO WAS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR ST CATHERINE UPWARDS OF TWENTY FIVE YEARS, WAS CHOSEN SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY IN 1802, APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND IN 1808, AND DIED ON THE 9th OF FEBRUARY 1810 IN LONDON IN His 60th YEAR.


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THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY SUSANNAH RENNALLS IN TESTIMONY OF HER AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE TO A FATHER AND BROTHER.

W. M. Tablet.

HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF THE HONBLE COLL: JAMES RISBY WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGT. THE 22d 1726 AGED 63 YEARS. ALSO THE BODY OF JANE HIS WIFE AGED 19 YEARS.

HERE LIES THE BODY OF CHARLES KELLY ESQ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCT YE 7th 1731 AGED 32 YEARS ALSO THE BODYS OF JANE, MARY AND EDMUND KELLY CHILDREN OF THE SAID CHARLES KELLY ESQ.

Stone Slab.

CHARLES was probably the brother of Edmund Kelly, Attorney-General and Speaker of the House of Assembly.

123.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN RODON ESQUIRE A NATIVE OF THIS ISLAND WHO FILLED FOR MANY YEARS THE PUBLIC SITUATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE IN ASSEMBLY FOR THIS PARISH, OF MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, AND OF CUSTOS ROTULORUM AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE FOR THIS PARISH AND PRECINCT HE WAS EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED FOR THE FAITHFUL DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTIES BOTH IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE IN BENEVOLENCE AND STRICT INTEGRITY HE WAS EQUALLED BY FEW. HE DIED IN LONDON ON THE 21st DAY OF JANUARY 1808 AGED 63 YEARS SINCERELY AND DESERVEDLY REGRETTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.

W. M. Tablet.

MR. RODON was an Attorney-at-Law, and partner with Mr. Finlayson.

124.

(Ab.) FOUR SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS OF JOHN AND SUSANNA SPENCER WHO DIED FROM 1751 TO 1760 THE OLDEST NOT 13 YEARS OF AGE.

Stone Slab.

125.

(Ab.) SUSANNA SPENCER (OB) 1751


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126.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF COLONEL EDWARD STANTON. HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 22d DAY OF JUNE ANO. DOMI. 1705 AND IN THE 65th YEAR OF HIS AGE. ALSO PRISCILLA WIFE OF YE SAID EDWARD STANTON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 11th DAY OF SEPTEMBR ANO. DOMI. 1709 AND IN YE 56th YEAR OF HER AGE.

B. M. Slab; Arms, Vair, on a canton, a cross patée fitchée. Crest, A greyhound sejeant.

EDWARD STANTON was chosen Member for St. David, 8th January, 1671. In twelve succeeding Assemblies he served for St. Thomas-in-the-East, and in three for Kingston. When representative of the last-mentioned parish, he was chosen Speaker of the House, April 11, 1704 Roby.

It is not improbable that this officer was a near relative of Serjeant Edward Staunton, who agreed to train and exercise the inhabitants of Providence Island, in the use of arms. - Cal. S. P., Col. S., March 9, 1636.

There was an ancient family named Staunton, settled in Notts. in the time of Edward I Banks' " Baronia," &c.

127.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE RT HONBLE WILLIAM SELWYN, ESQR OF MATSON, IN YE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER, COLONEL OF A REGIMENT OF FOOT, AND MAJOR GENERAL OF HER MATIES FORCES, GOVERNOR OF GRAVESEND AND TILBURY FORT, CAPTN GENERAL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HER MATIES ISLAND OF JAMAICA AND YE TERRETORIES THERETO BELONGING, AND VICE ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, WHO DIED YE 5th APRIL 1702.

OSTENDENT INSULAE HUNC TANTUM FATA, NEQUE ULTRA ESSE SINENT.

W. M. Mont., Sculpture, an urn, &c.; Arms, On a bend cotised, within a border engrailed, three annulets.

IN 1703 Major-General Selwyn, Colonel Beckford, and the Earl of Peterborough administered the government of Jamaica.

128.

AENEUS STUERT DYED 1734 AGED 24 MARY WIFE OF PETER WARD DIED 1740 AGED 55 MARY THEIR DAUGHTER, DIED 1734 AGED 6.

W. M. Slab.

(Ab.) MR. GEORGE TAYLOR (OB) 1724 (AET) 52

Also

( Ab.) HIS WIFE MRS SUSANNA TAYLOR (OB) 1732 IN HER 53d YR.


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(Ab.) MARY TRUELOVE DIED 1749 AGED 29.

B. M. Slab.

TRUELOVE'S Company is mentioned, in the muster of the inhabitants of Virginia, in 1625.

131.

DERBYE TOLDERBYE YE SONNE OF JOHN TOLDERBYE ESQR BY HANNAH HIS SECOND WIFE DIED 1682 IN HIS 15th MONTH.

B. M. Slab.

132.

HERE LYETH YE BODY OF CAPT JOHN TOLDERBYE, WHO DYED YE SIXTEEN DAY OF DECEMBER 1682, AND IN YE FORTIETH YEAR OF HIS AGE: AFTER HAVING GAYNED A VERY FAIR REPUTATION IN YE WARRS OF YE FRENCH KING AGAINST YE EMPEROUR.

HE DEATH OUTBRAVED ON MANY A BLOODY FEILD

YET DEATH AT LAST HAS MAD THE SOLDIER YIELD.

B. M. Slab; Arms. A fess between three crosses crosslet fitchee.... Crest, An arm embowed holding a wreath.

DERBYE TOLDERBY. This peculiar surname seems to be identical with Toldervey. In 1604 (Cal. S. P.) there is a notice of Christopher Toldervey being continued as collector of tithes in London, on the translation of the Bishop of Chester to that see. See the pedigree of Manjoy or Mangye.

133.

MARY TAAFE. (Neither date nor remark)*

C. Y.

SHE was probably the wife of Michael Taafe. The Taaffes of Jamaica were apparently allied to the noble house of the same name in Ireland. However the local tradition may have originated, there is still enough to be gleaned from the wills of the family, in both islands, to justify a respect for it.

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*Towards the close of the seventeenth century and earlier part of the eighteenth, Ireland was in so unsettled a state, that there are few parochial registers there, which may be referred to, for the confirmation of pedigrees ; and the remarkable vicissitudes of the family in question, would make such difficulties insurmountable, were it not for the comparative rarity of the name itself forming a useful clue. The earliest will on record in Jamaica of this family, is that of Arthur Taafe, dated in 1750, and entered Jan. 30, 1752. In it the testator leaves legacies to his father Christopher and his mother Mary, of the kingdom of Ireland, "if still alive." Arthur Taafe also mentions his brother, the rector of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale, Henry Taafe, and his nephew Henry Gordon. The question is, who was this Christopher Taafe? A Christopher Taaffe, of Mansfields Town, co. Louth, was attainted in 1691 at Ardee. He was an adherent of James II., in whose own regiment of infantry he was a lieutenant. "I find," says the author of a valuable work on a kindred subject,"the chattel property of a Christopher Taaffe"(probably the above lieutenant), "sold in 1725, who, dying in Dublin in 1736, made a will, which is recorded there, from which 1 think that he is identical with the Christopher named in the will of Arthur Taafe of Jamaica. The latter had sons, Arthur and Henry, and 1 am inclined to think, that he had also a son George, who passed into Connaught and settled there.(1) It seems, however, more probable that he was the Christopher, son of George Taaffe (Corballa, co. Meath) mentioned in the will of Stephen Taaffe, 1730. The next will is that of Henry Taafe (entered May 30, 1770. He was rector of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale, Jamaica. His sons are named: 1. Arthur Rodger, 2. John Armistead, 3. Richard Brownrigg, 4. Thomas Wheeler. He appoints John Gordon the guardian of his sons. Anne, the sister of Henry Taaffe, was married to Mr. Gordon, (2) said to have been originally of Enniskillen, and who was father of the Henry Gordon mentioned in the will of Arthur Taafe, his uncle. Henry Taafe names, among other bequests, "his gold watch and tortoise-shell box set in gold." In the record of his matriculation, in 1740, at Trinity College, Dublin, Henry is described as being then seventeen years of age, and the son of Christopher Taaffe " Generosus in Corn. Derriae. " In the will of William Gordon, of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica (Nov. 27, 1759), there is a bequest to Susanna, daughter of Harry Gordon, of St. James's; and in the will of Henry Gordon, of St. James's, Jamaica, dated Jan. 18, 1788, we find references to his (mother's, Anne Taafe) claims to real and personal estate in Ireland. The next Taafe will, is that of Michael Taafe (dated May 19, 1761), of St. James's, Jamaica, in which the testator mentions his mother Anne residing at Dromisken, co. Louth. N. B. Theobald Taafe, Earl of Carlingford, had a grant of land, in 1668, in the parish or townland of Dromisken, co. Louth. In 1762 is entered the will (dated in 1754) Of Susanna Taafe, "wife of Theobald Taafe, of Hanover Square, in the parish of St. George, Middlesex, England, . . . and youngest daughter of Henry Lowe."*(3)

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*"King James II's Army List annotated." It is not shown how the author came by the knowledge of Christopher, the attainted officer, having left two sons, for there is no mention in his will either of wife or children.

(1)He bequeaths his sword and pistols to his relative Theobald Taaffe (1736).

(2) He was twice married : his first wife is said to have been Mary Jones, a lady of the Ranelagh family. But there is another lady of this name, and the widow, about 1720, of Penn, who had inherited his father, William, Penn's, Irish estate. There was also a connection by marriage between the Taaffes of Smernor, and the founder of Pennsylvania's family, while again the abovementioned Henry Gordon married a ,very near relative of the Penns See " History of the Taafe Family," Vienna, 1856; Notes and Queries, 1873 -4; "Ulster Records"' &c.

(3) Not "Long," as given in the Long pedigree. Vide the "Peerage,", &c.


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134.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANNE,* THE BELOVED AND LAMENTED CONSORT OF HIS EXCELLENCY SIR ADAM WILLIAMSON K.B CAPTAIN GENERAL, OF HIS MAJESTY'S POSSESSIONS IN ST. DOMINGO AND FORMERLY LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THIS ISLAND SITE WAS THE ORNAMENT OF SOCIETY, & A PATTERN OF HER SEX POSSESSING ALL THOSE VIRTUES, AND EXERCISING THAT BENEVOLENCE WHICH RENDERED HER LIFE A BLESSING HER DEATH AN IRRE PARABLE LOSS TO THE COMMUNITY SHE DIED THE 19th OF SEPTEMBER 1794, IN THE 48th YEAR OF HER AGE DEPLORED BY ALL; BUT BY NONE WITH MORE HEARTFELT ANGUISH THAN THE DESOLATE, THE INDIGENT, AND THE AFFLICTED :WHOSE SORROWS TIER TENDERNESS ANTICI PATED, AND TIER BOUNTY RELIEVED TO SUCH DISTINGUISHED EXCELLENCE, THE ASSEMBLY OF JAMAICA COULD NOT BE INSENSIBLE WITH GENERAL ASSENT, AND THE UNIVERSAL APPROBATION OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS THEY VOTED THIS MEMORIAL OF PUBLIC GRATITUDE AFFECTION AND ESTEEM.

M. Mont., sculpture a female figure leaning on a column, surmounted with an urn bearing the initials A. W., &c.; Arms, Quarterly, 1 & 4, or, a chev. gules betw. three trefoils sa. 2nd, sable, three lozenges argent, on a chev. or, three fleursdelys. 3rd, quarterly 1 & 4, argent, on a fess, three mullets.. in chief a boar's head couped. 2 & 3, azure, three garbs. Impaling, quarterly, 1 & 4 sable, a lion rampant within a border engrailed or. 2 & 3, gules, a cross on three greeces, argent (i.e., in "degrees"). Crest Out of a mural crown gules, a wyvern's head or. Motto, "Adsum. " Supporters, two lions rampant (tinctures imperfect).

J. Bacon, Sculpt. London, 179S.

MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAMSON was sworn into office as Lieut.Governor, and announced in General Orders as Commander-in-Chief, in November, 1790, during

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*Her death announced in the Gentleman's Magazine, Dec., 1794, vol. lxiv. p. 1150.


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the Government of the Earl of Effingham. On that nobleman's decease, 19th Nov., 1791, he assumed the Government of the Island, in virtue of the dormant commission before mentioned. He had been previously joined by his wife, who arrived in Jamaica, from London, on Oct. 31, 1791. He continued in the government until the arrival of Alexander (Lindsay), 6th Earl of Balcarras, at Port Royal, on April 15, 1795, and on the 21St of the same month, he was invested by the hands of the earl, his successor, as Commissioner, with the ribbon and badge of the Order of the Bath. On May 9, in the same year, he left Jamaica for Port-au-Prince, having been appointed Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of such parts of St. Domingo as then were, or hereafter might be, under the Government of Great Britain. Sir Adam died at Avesbury House, co. Wilts, Oct. 21, 1798, from the effects of a fall. He was Colonel of the 73rd Regiment.

Mrs. Williamson (for the Knighthood of the Bath was not conferred on her husband till after her death) was buried in this church, and an Act (as in the cases of the Earl and Countess of Effingham) passed the Legislature, to indemnify the Rev. R. S. Woodham, the rector, from the penalties imposed by the Law of 1789, for burying in churches.

135.

HERE LYES THE BODY OF THE HONOURABLE COLLONELL JOHN WALTERS, LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND, AND ONE OF HER MAJESTIES COUNCILL HERE. BORN AT ASHPRENTON* IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON. THE 6th OF APRIL 1659, AND DYED THE 5th OF NOVEMBER 1706, AGED 47 YEARS

B. M. Slab; Arms A fess dancette between three eagles displayed. Crest, On a cap of maintenance, a lion's head erased....

136.

(Ab.) ELIZABETH WALTERS DIED 1690.

137.

(Ab.) CAPT WILLIAM WALTER, OB. 1701, AET 36 HIS TWO SONS BOTH NAMED WILLIAM OB. 1692 & 1701.

WILLIAM WALTER was Member of Assembly for St. George, 27th Sept., 1698. Roby.

138.

THREE INNOCENTS, THE DEARLY BELOVED CHILDREN OF JOHN AND ANN WRIGHT ... ROBERT, BORN 1786 MARY FRANCES, BORN 1791 AND EDWARD BORN, 1790. WHO ALL DIED IN 1792

*Ashprington on the Dart (?)


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(These uncouth rhymes follow):

AH! DEAR BABES YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR PARENTS HERE FOR HEAVEN'S ABOVE NOT WANTING O' THEIR CARE BLEST NOW SUPREMELY SO YOU MUST BE FOR EVERMORE AND ALL ETERNITY.

G. M. Slab.

139.

DOCTR JOHN WIGAN OBIIT 5 DECR 1739 AETAT. 43.

B. M. Slab.

140.

MR JOHN WELCH DIED 17 APRIL 1798 AGED 40.

141.

HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF MR HENRY WILLIS, JUNIER, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 4 th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1702, AGED 26 YEARS.

HERE ALSO LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF MARY ELYES, DAUGHTER OF GERSHOM ELYES, ESQ, AND MARY HIS WIFE. SHE WAS BORN THE 30th OF JANUARY, 1715, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE, THE 14th DAY OF APRIL, 1716. AND ALSO THE BODY OF MARY ELYES, LATE WIFE OF GERSHOM ELYES, ESQ, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX, IN THE THIRTY SEVENTH YEAR OF HER AGE.

B. M. Slab.

COLONEL GERSHOM ELYES was Colonel of the St. Ann's regiment, and Member for St. Mary, in the first Assembly of 1711.

142.

APT. WILLIAM WORLEY DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE ELEVENTH DAY OF APRIL, ANNQ. DOM. 1690, AND IN THE TWENTY NINTH YEAR OF HIS AGE ALSO ELIZABETH HIS WIFE DEPARTED .......THE 22d DAY OF AUGUST ANN. DOM. 1696 AETATIS SUAE 33.

G. M. Slab; Arms. A chev. between three birds close... Crest, A wolf's head erased.

CAPT. WORLEY was chosen Member for this parish 20th July, 1688.


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143.

(Ab.) TIMOTHY WAKELING OB. 1741, AET. 44

W. M. Slab.

144.

{Ab.)RACHAEL WILSON DIED 1736 AGED 16. SAMUEL KING DIED 1742 AGED 41.

Stone Slab.

145.

(Ab.) EDWARD YOUNG DIED, 1710 HIS WIFE MARY, 1696.

B. M. Slab; Arms, Lozengy, on a bend, three heraldic antelopes' heads erased....

FORT AUGUSTA.

FORT AUGUSTA, the principal defence of the harbour of Kingston, was built, for the greater part, under the immediate direction and superintendence of the Governor, RearAdmiral Knowles (afterwards Sir Charles Knowles, of Lovel Hill, co. Berks, Bart.; and RearAdmiral of England).

1.

DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 25th 1807 MAJOR GEORGE CRAWFORD OF THE 2d W. I. REG SON OF JAMES CRAWFORD OF AUBURN IRELAND ESQ, WAS MAJOR OF THE 33d REG. IN THE EAST INDIES; SERVED UNDER SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY; WAS AT THE CAPTURE OF THE DUTCH FLEET BY LORD KEITH AND SIR JAMES CRAIG; WAS AT THE SIEGE AND STORM OF SERINGAPATAM; AND WAS FROM HIS EARLIEST YEARS ALWAYS ACTIVELY EMPLOYED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS KING AND COUNTRY (&C).

W. M.

2.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT JAMES CAMPBELL MACLACHLAN OF THE 82d REGT, SON OF COLONEL MACLACHLAN H. P. 69th REGIMENT, AGED 20 YEARS.


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3.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANDREW ROBERT CHARLESTON, MAJOR IN THE 92d HIGHLANDERS WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, MONDAY AUGUST 15th, 1825, AGED 30 YEARS.

4.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN SANKEY DARLEY MAJOR OF THE 2nd WEST INDIA REGMT WHO BRAVELY LOST HIS LIFE IN THE ZEALOUS DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTY ON THE 27th OF MAY 1808 HIS CONDUCT AS A MAN AND A SOLDIER, ENDEARING HIM TO ALL, HE DIED BELOVED AND REGRETTED BY HIS FAMILY FRIENDS AND BROTHER OFFICERS WITH THE DEEPEST SORROW THIS LAST SAD TRIBUTE IS PAID BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FATHER GEORGE DARLEY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN AGED 80 YEARS NOV 12th 1810. THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY, BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.

Job, 1st Chapter, 21st verse.

B. Stone; Crest, A unicorn's head couped, bridled, with crescent on breast. Motto, Dure.

MAJOR DARLEY's death is thus related in the "Continuation to Edwards' West Indies:" "Fifty-four Chamba and Koromantyn negroes, who had been purchased to serve in the Colonial corps, broke out into mutiny at Fort Augusta, while under drill, and massacred two of their officers, Major Darley and Lieutenant Ellis,who rode up to them to inquire into the cause of the tumult. They were speedily chastised for their disobedience and barbarity. Fifteen of them were killed on the spot, five were wounded, and seven were afterwards executed. The reason which they assigned for their conduct was, that they were too often drilled, and that they were desirous of returning to their native country." The date is incorrectly stated as August instead of May, 1808, and the Report of the Committee of Assembly says "that the mutiny was not by any means confined to the recruits, but that many of the old soldiers, if not openly and directly concerned in it, did persuade and excite the troops to mutiny." The " Chronology" of the "Jamaica Almanack " is more correct in its detail: "1808, May 27. Recruits of the 2nd West India Regiment mutinied on parade: Lieutenant and Adjutant Ellis was killed, and Major Darley died of the wounds he received. Nine of the mutineers were killed; one died of wounds; fifteen were tried by a courtmartial, and found guilty; seven of them were shot." The reader, desirous of further particulars, may consult the 12th vol. Journals of House of Assembly, where the examination of many witnesses is given at length. The "Violation of the privileges of the Assembly, in the case of Major-General Carmichael, commanding his Majesty's forces in this island," (who had directed the Officers under his command not " to answer any questions that the Legislative Body of this island might put upon the subject of a late mutiny, or upon the government or discipline of


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his Majesty's forces,") has been inserted by Mr. Aikman, sen., in an Appendix to his republication in 1810 of "The Privileges of Jamaica vindicated," in the case of John Olyphant, Esq., a Member of Assembly.

The major was brother to Alderman Darley, of Dublin, of Orange notoriety. Roby.

5.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPT JOSEPH GREENWOOD OF HM'S 22d REGT., WHO DIED AT FORT AUGUSTA, 31st OCTR, 1828, AGED 32 YEARS.

6.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF J. HINDS, ADJUTANT 2nd WEST INDIA REGT. OF FOOT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, MONDAY AUGUST 13th, 1825 AGED 30 YEARS.

7.

BENEATH THIS STONE LIE THE REMAINS OF COLL. CHARLES HILL WHO DIED 31st OF AUGUST 1819 AGED 57 YEARS. IN THE COMMAND OF THE 50th REGIMENT OF FOOT.

HE is honourably mentioned in the " Percy Anecdotes," under "Humanity."

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ARTHUR J. JONES, CAPTAIN OF H.M'S R.E, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, ON THE 18th OF MAY, 1816, AGED 50 YEARS.

9.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN GEORGE ROSS MUNRO LATE OF THE 85th REGIMENT WHO DIED NOVEMBER THE 11th 1802 AGED 19 YEARS THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS AS A TESTIMONY OF THEIR SINCERE ESTEEM FOR HIS AMIABLE CHARACTER.

W. M.

CAPT. GEORGE Ross MUNRO was the only son of Duncan Munro, Esq., of Culcairn, in the county of Ross, in Scotland, the nephew of Sir Hugh Munro, of Fowlis, Bart., and the presumptive heir to his title and estates."Royal Gazette, 1802.

10.

HENRY STANLEY MONK, CAPTAIN IN THE 13th REGT OF FOOT, WHO DIED 9 JULY 1791, IN HIS 32d YEAR.

Dilapidated Tomb.


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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF J. W. PARKINSON OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, ON THE 17th OF JUNE 1819. AGED 40 YEARS.

GREEN BAY.

1.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF CAPT EDWARD JAMES, A LATE EMINENT MERCHANT OF THIS ISLAND, WHO WAS ALWAYS LOYAL TO HIS PRINCE, FAITHFUL TO HIS FRIEND, KIND AND CHARITABLE TO HIS RELATIONS, READY UPON ALL OCCASIONS OF DOING GOOD OFFICES TO HIS ACQUAINTANCES. DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 28th, DAY OF APRIL 1720, IN THE 50th YEAR OF HIS AGE, MUCH LAMENTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.

2.

HERE LYES THE BODY OF LEWIS CALDY ESQR, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT PORT ROYAL, THE 22d DECEMBER 1739 AGED 80 YEARS. HE WAS BORN AT MONTPELIER IN FRANCE, BUT LEFT THAT COUNTRY FOR HIS RELIGION, AND CAME TO SETTLE IN THIS ISLAND, WHERE HE WAS SWALLOWED UP IN THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN THE YEAR 1692, AND BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD, WAS BY ANOTHER SHOCK THROWN INTO THE SEA, AND MIRACULOUSLY SAVED BY SWIMMING UNTIL A BOAT TOOK HIM UP: HE LIVED MANY YEARS AFTER IN GREAT REPUTATION, BELOVED BY ALL THAT KNEW HIM, AND MUCH LAMENTED AT HIS DEATH.

Brick tomb with Marble Slab; Arms, A cock between two mullets in chief and a crescent in base Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a plume. Motto, Dieu sur tout."

THIS remarkable inscription is copied from a note in Edwards' "West Indies," and in the text of Bridges' "Annals." Both writers have incorrectly transcribed the date of Galdy's death, stating it to have occurred in 1736 instead of 1739. Mr. Galdy was an affluent merchant of Port Royal, Member of Assembly for St. Mary, 29th December, 1707; for Port Royal, 4th January, 1708-9 ; for St. George, 17th April, 1711; for Port Royal, 17th September, 1716, and for St. Anne, August 1, 1718, besides sitting in other Assemblies for which there are no returns. Journals; Roby.

Mr. Galdy probably exaggerated the circumstances of his escape, especially as there was no one left to contradict his statement.

3.

HERE LYES THE B0DY OF CAPTN ROBERT SNORTING, COMMANDER OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP DEALL CASTLE, WH0 DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE ELEVENTH


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DAY OF MAY 17.... IN THE ..YEAR OF HIS AGE. HE WAS SON OF THOMAS SHORTING ESQ .... CLOUDSLY SHOVEL, REAR ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Stone Altar Tomb.. Sculpture, A man of war in full sail.

4.

HERE LYETH YE BODY OF CAPT. WILLIAM WAKELIN, LATE COMMANDER OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP YE SUFFOLK, WH0 DEPARTED THIS LIFE, YE 1th OF OCTOBER 1705 AGED 46 YEARS.

THOSE, WAKELIN, WEEP AND WANT, AND MOURN THEE MOST WHO, HAPPY, COULD THY HONEST FRIENDSHIP BOAST. SEAS MAY BE KIND, AND EARTH MAY RICHES LEND TO SEARCHING MAN, BUT CANNOT GIVE A FRIEND.


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