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	Portrait of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet painted by Agostino Brunias, 1770
Born	1724; Antigua
Died	1788 (aged 64)
Occupation	Governor of Dominica

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Sir William Young, 1st Baronet (c. 1724 – c. 1788) was an Antiguan-born colonial administrator and planter.^[1] He served as President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands, and was appointed the first non-military governor of Dominica in 1768.

Early life

William Young was born in the British colony of Antigua c. 1724. He was the son of William Young, a doctor who had fled from Scotland after the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1715 as a result of his pro-Jacobite sympathies.

Career

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1748, his candidature citation reading "Residing at Chalton near Canterbury, A Gentleman well versed in Natural and Experimental knowledge, and alwaies ready to promote whatever may tend to the Improvement of Arts and Sciences".^[2]

He was the author of Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking, published in 1764.^[3]

Early in 1764, Prime Minister George Grenville nominated Young and he was appointed in the same year to be President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands. The islands included Grenada, Tobago, Dominica, and St Vincent, acquired from France as a result of the 1763 Peace of Paris.^[4] The commission was under instructions to create model colonies, which would learn from the success of others but which would avoid their problems of depleted fertility and environmental degradation.^[5] In late 1764, Young and his group sailed for Barbados, spending eight years away from his family during the period of 1764 to 1773, though in fact he made at least two return journeys in 1767 and 1770. James Harris reports on attending concerts at Young's residence in those years.^[6] Of particular note during this time, Young employed the artist Agostino Brunias to record Young's progress and the visual context of his Commission's work. Young was also a diarist and illustrator and documented his own time in the Caribbean islands.^[7] He recorded "110 voyages of a like nature performed in the course of nine years amongst the ceded islands on the service of the Commission for the sale of lands."^[8]^[9]

In 1768, Young was made Lieutenant Governor of Dominica. In 1769 he was made Baronet Young of North Dean. In 1770 he was chosen to be the first Governor of the new government, being sworn in on 17 November 1770.^[8] He was responsible for building the main military stronghold of Dominica in Roseau, Fort Young (now a hotel) in 1770 and for Government House, Dominica, his residence near the fort. He left Dominica in 1772, rushing to St Vincent to "assist with the Carib War" and to protect his estates there. Sir William Young was back in England at the end of 1773, and his office of Receiver and Governor ended, and it was concluded by his family that "the adventure in the ceded islands had proved so expensive and indeed ruinous" to him.^[8]

Personal life

Young and his second wife, Elizabeth (1729–1801), the daughter of the mathematician Brook Taylor, had several children, including Sarah Elizabeth, William, Portia, Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, John, and Olivia.^[10] He and ten family members were featured in the oil painting, The Family of Sir William Young, Baronet (ca.1766) by Johann Zoffany.^[11] His eldest son, Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet (1749–1815), was the Governor of Tobago from 1807-1815 as well as serving as a Member of Parliament.^[12]

Sir William purchased some of the best pieces of real estate on Antigua, St Vincent, and Tobago.^[8] Despite this, he was seriously in debt and after his death in 1788 he left a debt of around £110,000 (£17,533,957 in 2024 pounds^[13]) for his first son to pay off. Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet also inherited four plantations and 896 slaves in the colonies at that time, but was unable to save them from bankruptcy.^[12]

Legacy

Young Island in the Grenadines is named in his honour.^[14]

References

^ "The family of Sir William Young. Understanding Slavery Initiative". understandingslavery.com. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 February 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Young, Sir William (1764). Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking. printed for James Robson. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
^ Quintanilla, Mark (Summer 2003). "The World of Alexander Campbell: An Eighteenth-Century Grenadian Planter". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 35 (2). The North American Conference on British Studies: 229–256. doi:10.2307/4054136. JSTOR 4054136.
^ Alston, David (2021), Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 59 - 64, ISBN 9781474427319
^ Burrows and Dunhill, Donald and Rosemary (2002). Music and Theatre in Handel's World The Family Papers of James Harris 1732-1780. Oxford: Oxford. pp. 478–479, 582ff. ISBN 0-19-816654-0.
^ "Sir William Young". Understanding Slavery Initiative. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Honychurch, Lennox (10 October 2003). "Chatoyer's Artist: Agostino Brunias and the depiction of St Vincent". Cave Hill, Barbados: The University of the West Indies. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
^ Sutton, Peter. C. "Agostino Brunias c. 1730-Dominica, c. 1796". Madrid, Spain: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
^ "The Family of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, ca.1766". 62ndregiment.org. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
^ Tobin, Beth Fowkes (1999). Picturing imperial power: colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting. Duke University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8223-2338-9. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Young, William Sir". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30284. Retrieved 25 June 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ Henderson, James (2005). Caribbean & the Bahamas. New Holland Publishers. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-86011-212-6.

Baronetage of Great Britain
New creation	Baronet (of North Dean) 1769 – 1788	Succeeded by William Young

[1] "The family of Sir William Young. Understanding Slavery Initiative". understandingslavery.com. Retrieved 27 December 2021.

[2] "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 February 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}

[Young1764-3] Young, Sir William (1764). Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking. printed for James Robson. Retrieved 25 June 2011.

[Quintanilla2003-4] Quintanilla, Mark (Summer 2003). "The World of Alexander Campbell: An Eighteenth-Century Grenadian Planter". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 35 (2). The North American Conference on British Studies: 229–256. doi:10.2307/4054136. JSTOR 4054136.

[Alston2021-5] Alston, David (2021), Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 59 - 64, ISBN 9781474427319

[6] Burrows and Dunhill, Donald and Rosemary (2002). Music and Theatre in Handel's World The Family Papers of James Harris 1732-1780. Oxford: Oxford. pp. 478–479, 582ff. ISBN 0-19-816654-0.

[7] "Sir William Young". Understanding Slavery Initiative. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.

[Honychurch2003-8] Honychurch, Lennox (10 October 2003). "Chatoyer's Artist: Agostino Brunias and the depiction of St Vincent". Cave Hill, Barbados: The University of the West Indies. Retrieved 25 June 2011.

[Sutton-9] Sutton, Peter. C. "Agostino Brunias c. 1730-Dominica, c. 1796". Madrid, Spain: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

[62ndregiment.org-10] "The Family of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, ca.1766". 62ndregiment.org. Retrieved 25 June 2011.

[Tobin1999-11] Tobin, Beth Fowkes (1999). Picturing imperial power: colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting. Duke University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8223-2338-9. Retrieved 25 June 2011.

[OMDB-12] "Young, William Sir". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30284. Retrieved 25 June 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[inflation-UK-13] UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

[Henderson2005-14] Henderson, James (2005). Caribbean & the Bahamas. New Holland Publishers. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-86011-212-6.

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+'''Sir William Young, 1st Baronet''' ({{circa|1724}} – {{circa|1788}}) was an Antiguan-born colonial administrator and planter.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The family of Sir William Young. Understanding Slavery Initiative|url=http://understandingslavery.com/artefact/the-family-of-sir-william-young/|access-date=2021-12-27|website=understandingslavery.com}}</ref> He served as President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands, and was appointed the first non-military [[governor of Dominica]] in 1768.
-[[File:SirWilliamYoungAndFamily.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sir William Young and his family.]]
-'''Sir William Young, 1st Baronet''' (1724/5–1788) was a British politician and sugar plantation owner. He served as President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands, and was appointed the first non-military [[Governor of Dominica]] in 1768.
 ==Early life==
-He was born in Antigua in 1725, the son of Dr William Young who had fled from Scotland after the Jacobite uprising of 1715.
+William Young was born in the [[British West Indies|British colony]] of [[Antigua]] {{circa|1724}}. He was the son of William Young, a doctor who had fled from [[Scotland]] after the suppression of the [[Jacobite rising of 1715]] as a result of his pro-[[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] sympathies.
 == Career ==
 He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1748, his candidature citation reading "''Residing at Chalton near Canterbury, A Gentleman well versed in Natural and Experimental knowledge, and alwaies ready to promote whatever may tend to the Improvement of Arts and Sciences''".<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27EC%2F1747%2F18%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl| title = Library and Archive Catalogue| publisher = Royal Society| accessdate = 2012-02-27}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
+He was the author of ''Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking,'' published in 1764.<ref name="Young1764">{{cite book|last=Young|first=Sir William|title=Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GcINAAAAQAAJ|accessdate=25 June 2011|year=1764|publisher=printed for James Robson}}</ref>
-Early in 1764, [[Prime Minister of Great Britain|Prime Minister]] [[George Grenville]] nominated Young and he was appointed in the same year to be President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands. The islands included [[Grenada]], [[Tobago]], [[Dominica]], and [[Saint Vincent (island)|St Vincent]], acquired from France as a result of the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|1763 Peace of Paris]].<ref name="Quintanilla2003">{{cite journal|last=Quintanilla|first=Mark |date=Summer 2003|title=The World of Alexander Campbell: An Eighteenth-Century Grenadian Planter |journal=Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies|publisher=The North American Conference on British Studies|volume=35|issue=2|pages=229|jstor=4054136}}</ref> In late 1764, he and his group sailed for [[Barbados]], spending eight years away from his family during the period of 1764 to 1773, though in fact he made at least two return journeys in 1767 and 1770. James Harris reports on attending concerts at Young's residence in those years.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Music and Theatre in Handel's World The Family Papers of James Harris 1732-1780|last = Burrows and Dunhill|first = Donald and Rosemary|publisher = Oxford|year = 2002|isbn = 0-19-816654-0|location = Oxford|pages = 478–479; 582ff}}</ref> The artist [[Agostino Brunias]] travelled with Young, recording Young's progress and the visual context of his Commission's work.<ref name="Honychurch2003" />
+Early in 1764, [[Prime Minister of Great Britain|Prime Minister]] [[George Grenville]] nominated Young and he was appointed in the same year to be President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands. The islands included [[Grenada]], [[Tobago]], [[Dominica]], and [[Saint Vincent (island)|St Vincent]], acquired from France as a result of the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|1763 Peace of Paris]].<ref name="Quintanilla2003">{{cite journal|last=Quintanilla|first=Mark |date=Summer 2003|title=The World of Alexander Campbell: An Eighteenth-Century Grenadian Planter |journal=Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies|publisher=The North American Conference on British Studies|volume=35|issue=2|pages=229–256|doi=10.2307/4054136 |jstor=4054136}}</ref> The commission was under instructions to create model colonies, which would learn from the success of others but which would avoid their problems of depleted fertility and [[environmental degradation]].<ref name = "Alston2021">Alston, David (2021), ''Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean'', [[Edinburgh University Press]], pp. 59 - 64, {{isbn|9781474427319}}</ref> In late 1764, Young and his group sailed for [[Barbados]], spending eight years away from his family during the period of 1764 to 1773, though in fact he made at least two return journeys in 1767 and 1770. James Harris reports on attending concerts at Young's residence in those years.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Music and Theatre in Handel's World The Family Papers of James Harris 1732-1780|last = Burrows and Dunhill|first = Donald and Rosemary|publisher = Oxford|year = 2002|isbn = 0-19-816654-0|location = Oxford|pages = 478–479; 582ff}}</ref> Of particular note during this time, Young employed the artist [[Agostino Brunias]] to record Young's progress and the visual context of his Commission's work. Young was also a diarist and illustrator and documented his own time in the Caribbean islands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:sir-william-young-1725-1788&catid=51:key-historical-individuals&Itemid=88|title=Sir William Young|publisher=Understanding Slavery Initiative|access-date=25 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929115325/http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:sir-william-young-1725-1788&catid=51:key-historical-individuals&Itemid=88|archive-date=29 September 2011}}</ref> He recorded "110 voyages of a like nature performed in the course of nine years amongst the ceded islands on the service of the Commission for the sale of lands."<ref name="Honychurch2003">{{cite web|url=http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/svg/conference/papers/honychurch.html|title=Chatoyer's Artist: Agostino Brunias and the depiction of St Vincent |last=Honychurch|first=Lennox |date=10 October 2003|publisher=The University of the West Indies|accessdate=25 June 2011|location=Cave Hill, Barbados}}</ref><ref name="Sutton">{{cite web|url=http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_artista/105|title=Agostino Brunias c. 1730-Dominica, c. 1796|last=Sutton|first=Peter. C.|publisher=Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza|access-date=23 June 2011|location=Madrid, Spain|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610072635/http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_artista/105|archive-date=10 June 2011}}</ref>
+In 1768, Young was made Lieutenant [[Governor of Dominica]]. In 1769 he was made Baronet Young of North Dean. In 1770 he was chosen to be the first Governor of the new government, being sworn in on 17 November 1770.<ref name="Honychurch2003" /> He was responsible for building the main military stronghold of Dominica in [[Roseau]], [[Fort Young (Dominica)|Fort Young]] (now a [[Fort Young Hotel|hotel]]) in 1770 and for [[Government House, Dominica]], his residence near the fort. He left Dominica in 1772, rushing to St Vincent to "assist with the Carib War" and to protect his estates there. Sir William Young was back in England at the end of 1773, and his office of Receiver and Governor ended, and it was concluded by his family that "the adventure in the ceded islands had proved so expensive and indeed ruinous" to him.<ref name="Honychurch2003" />
-[[File:Pacification with the Maroon Negroes RMG E9981.jpg|thumb|William Young acting for the British Crown and the so-called Black Caribs of St Vincent signing the 1773 peace treaty]]
-Young recorded "110 voyages of a like nature performed in the course of nine years amongst the ceded islands on the service of the Commission for the sale of lands." In 1768, Young was made Lieutenant [[Governor of Dominica]] and was chosen to be the first Governor of the new government, being sworn in on 17 November 1770.<ref name="Honychurch2003" /> He was responsible for building the main military stronghold of Dominica in [[Roseau]], [[Fort Young Hotel|Fort Young]] (now a hotel) in 1770 and for [[Government House, Dominica]], his residence near the fort. He left Dominica in 1772, rushing to St Vincent to "assist with the Carib War" and to protect his estates there. In 1769 he was made Baronet Young of North Dean.
+[[File:Pacification with the Maroon Negroes RMG E9981.jpg|thumb|Young acting for the British Crown and the so-called Black Caribs of St Vincent signing the 1773 peace treaty]]
-He was also a diarist and illustrator of works related to the Caribbean islands,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:sir-william-young-1725-1788&catid=51:key-historical-individuals&Itemid=88|title=Sir William Young|publisher=Understanding Slavery Initiative|access-date=25 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929115325/http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:sir-william-young-1725-1788&catid=51:key-historical-individuals&Itemid=88|archive-date=29 September 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> although he hired Italian painter Brunias to paint pictures for him of the islands' people and interaction between the colonists and the natives, travelling with him through the islands.<ref name="Honychurch2003">{{cite web|url=http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/svg/conference/papers/honychurch.html|title=Chatoyer's Artist: Agostino Brunias and the depiction of St Vincent |last=Honychurch|first=Lennox |date=10 October 2003|publisher=The University of the West Indies|accessdate=25 June 2011|location=Cave Hill, Barbados}}</ref><ref name="Sutton">{{cite web|url=http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_artista/105|title=Agostino Brunias c. 1730-Dominica, c. 1796|last=Sutton|first=Peter. C.|publisher=Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza|access-date=23 June 2011|location=Madrid, Spain|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610072635/http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_artista/105|archive-date=10 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>  He was the author of ''Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking'' (1764).<ref name="Young1764">{{cite book|last=Young|first=Sir William|title=Considerations which may tend to promote the settlement of our new West-India colonies: by encouraging individuals to embark in the undertaking|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GcINAAAAQAAJ|accessdate=25 June 2011|year=1764|publisher=printed for James Robson}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
-Young and his second wife, Elizabeth (1729–1801), had several children, including Sarah Elizabeth, William, Portia, Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, John, and Olivia.<ref name="62ndregiment.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.62ndregiment.org/Henry_Young.htm|title=The Family of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, ca.1766|work=62ndregiment.org|accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref> He and ten family members were featured in the oil painting, ''The Family of Sir William Young, Baronet'' (ca.1766) by [[Johann Zoffany]].<ref name="Tobin1999">{{cite book|last=Tobin|first=Beth Fowkes|title=Picturing imperial power: colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9flbAxCJnIC&pg=PA40|accessdate=25 June 2011|year=1999|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-2338-9|pages=40–}}</ref> His eldest son, [[Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet]] (1749–1815), became a Governor of [[Tobago]].<ref name="OMDB">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30284?docPos=5|title=Young, William Sir|publisher=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] (subscription required)|accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref>
+Young and his second wife, Elizabeth (1729–1801), the daughter of the mathematician [[Brook Taylor]], had several children, including Sarah Elizabeth, William, Portia, Elizabeth, [[Mary Young Sewell|Mary]], Henry, John, and Olivia.<ref name="62ndregiment.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.62ndregiment.org/Henry_Young.htm|title=The Family of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, ca.1766|work=62ndregiment.org|accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref> He and ten family members were featured in the oil painting, ''The Family of Sir William Young, Baronet'' (ca.1766) by [[Johann Zoffany]].<ref name="Tobin1999">{{cite book|last=Tobin|first=Beth Fowkes|title=Picturing imperial power: colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9flbAxCJnIC&pg=PA40|accessdate=25 June 2011|year=1999|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-2338-9|page=40}}</ref> His eldest son, [[Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet]] (1749–1815), was the Governor of [[Tobago]] from 1807-1815 as well as serving as a Member of Parliament.<ref name="OMDB">{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30284?docPos=5|title=Young, William Sir|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30284 |accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref>
-Sir William purchased some of the best pieces of real estate on Antigua, St Vincent, and Tobago.<ref name="Honychurch2003" />  He left four plantations to his son, William, after his death and a total of 896 African slaves. He had been seriously in debt and left a sum of around £110,000 (£{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|110000|1788}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}} pounds{{inflation-fn|UK}}) for his son to pay off.<ref name="OMDB"/>
+Sir William purchased some of the best pieces of real estate on Antigua, St Vincent, and Tobago.<ref name="Honychurch2003" /> Despite this, he was seriously in debt and after his death in 1788 he left a debt of around £110,000 (£{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|110000|1788}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}} pounds{{inflation-fn|UK}}) for his first son to pay off. Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet also inherited four plantations and 896 slaves in the colonies at that time, but was unable to save them from bankruptcy.<ref name="OMDB"/>
 ==Legacy==
-Young Island in the [[Grenadines]] is named in his honour.<ref name="Henderson2005">{{cite book|last=Henderson|first=James|title=Caribbean & the Bahamas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMM_yrOxqZkC&pg=PA184|accessdate=25 June 2011|date=1 October 2005|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-86011-212-6|pages=184–}}</ref>
+Young Island in the [[Grenadines]] is named in his honour.<ref name="Henderson2005">{{cite book|last=Henderson|first=James|title=Caribbean & the Bahamas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMM_yrOxqZkC&pg=PA184|year=2005|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-86011-212-6|page=184}}</ref>
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+[[Category:Antigua and Barbuda slave owners]]
+[[Category:Antigua and Barbuda people of British descent]]
+[[Category:Caribbean people of Scottish descent]]

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