Barbados, Jamaica & Bahamas

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi"><U><B>Map Locations</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>courtesy of multimap.com</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?place=&db=w3&scale=4000000&width=500&height=300&lon=-59.5&lat=13&zs=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>Barbados</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>(Bridgetown)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jamaica</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi?scale=500000&lat=18.0157&lon=-76.7973&a=1&country=Jamaica&region=&place=Kingston,+,+Jamaica&db=w3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/browse.cgi"><U><B>(Port Royal - Kingston)</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Links</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B> </B></FONT><B>to Falmouth, Jamaica</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/kchaye/georgiantwn.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/kchaye/georgian"><U><B>THE GEORGIAN TOWN OF FALMOUTH TRELAWNY</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>&</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/kchaye/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/kchaye/"><U><B>THE HISTORY OF TRELAWNY</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Spain Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz"><U>Spain - Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packet Routes"><U>Packet Routes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal, Lisbon, Faro Oporto"><U>Portugal, Lisbon, Faro & Oporto</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mediterranean Gibraltar, Malta "><U>Mediterranean - Gibraltar, Malta +</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal: Madeira the Azores "><U>Portugal: Madeira & the Azores </U></A>   |   <B>Barbados, Jamaica & Bahamas</B>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leeward Islands"><U>Leeward Islands</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trinidad Tobago"><U>Trinidad & Tobago</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pensacola Charlestown"><U>Pensacola & Charlestown</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Surinam"><U>Surinam</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guyana"><U>Guyana</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mexico"><U>Mexico</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florida, Carolinas, Virginia"><U>Florida, Carolinas, Virginia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New York"><U>New York</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="N. 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(this an error for <B>22 </B>ulto.) a Brig Packet was captured about four miles off the South End of Barbados by a large American Schooner Privateer. The action was seen from the shore and continued upwards of an hour. <B>The Brig was not observed to wear her private signal</B>, but from information subsequently obtained from four men belonging to the Privateer, who were picked up in a small boat and brought in here, there is every reason to suppose that it must have been the <I><B>Lapwing</B></I><I>.” </I>The letter concludes with the report of the enemy having seized “a Part of the Mail.” </div> <div> <I>[qf. The loss of the LAPWING, Post Office Packet,</I>by H. H. Brindley. <I>Mariner's Mirror</I> Vol.6 (1930) ]</div> <bR> <bR> <div> FP 14/3/<B>1835          </B>Value of Slaves in Jamaica to 1 August,1834.</div> <div> Negroes 309,167, Value £15,352, 306,  under 6 years, 38,754. Average value £40. 13c 11d. for each "apprentice".  [<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" >Small wonder there were uprisings and food shortages!</FONT><I>]</I></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>