Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day — John Shaqi
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present dayLanaghan, Mrs.
History
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
Lanaghan, Mrs.
Antigua -- Description and travel; Antigua -- History
CHAPTER LII.
Botany
CHAPTER LIII.
Government—Governor-in-Chief—Council—Assembly—Government
officers—Judicial officers—Ecclesiastical establishments—
Schools—Fortifications and military defences—Revenue—Exports
and imports—Population returns
Supplemental Chapter
APPENDIX.
No. 1.—Copy of the First Commission which was ever granted for
the Government of Barbados and the Leeward Islands
No. 2.—Genealogy Of the Warner Family
No. 3.—Memorial of the Winthorpe Family
No. 4.—Genealogy of the Byam Family
No. 5.—Copy of the Grant of Land to Col. Philip Warner, after
the Restoration of Antigua to the English Crown, in 1667
—— Copy of the Grant of Land to Col. Philip Warner, restored to
him after his acquittal upon the charge of murdering his
half-brother, the Indian Warner, in 1676
No. 6.—A Remonstrance of the inhabitants of the island of
Antigua why they soe very earnestly craved authority and
commission from his Excellency, William Stapleton, Captain
General and Governor in chief in and over all his Majesties
Leward Cariba Islands in America. To kill and destroy the
Indians inhabiting in ye Island of Dominica and likewise for ye
craveing ayde from the neighbouring Islands under his
Excellency’s command which was promised us
No. 7.—Genealogy of the Williams Family
Nos. 8. and 9.—Genealogy of the Codrington Family
No. 10.—Genealogy of the Mathew Family
No. 11.—List of the Members of the House of Assembly at the
time of the death of Governor Parke, copied from the Original
Returns
No. 12.—Last Will and Testament of Governor Parke
No. 13.—Account of the Mackinnon Family
No. 14.—Papers relative to the Negro Insurrection of 1736
No. 15.—Genealogy of the Thomas Family
No. 16.—Genealogy of the Carlisles and Lavingtons
No. 17.—Genealogy of Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy
No. 18.—Genealogy of the Willoughby Family
No. 19.—Genealogy of the Martin Family, of Green Castle
No. 20.—Genealogy of the Freeman Family
ANTIGUA AND THE ANTIGUANS,
ETC.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Caribs: Domestic state—Treatment of their women—Children—Their
early tuition—Superstitious cruelties—Hatred of the Arrowawks—
Female children—Occupation of the men—Canoes—Bows and arrows—
Cottages—Cooking utensils—Native cloth—Food—Fishing—Decoy fish—
Spirituous liquors—Personal appearance—Amusements—The Carib
house—Extermination of the Caribs from Antigua—Remarks upon
their history.
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