West Indies and death
In 1667,Stapleton,as an English Army officer,sailed with Sir Tobias Bridge and his regiment to Barbados,where he was granted the rank of lieutenant colonel;the governor of Barbados,Lord Willoughby,dispatched him to the Leeward Islands. The next year,he was appointed Deputy Governor of Montserrat,and in 1671 William became the first governor of the Leeward Islands. The same year,he married Anne Russell,the daughter of Colonel Randolph Russell,a military officer and plantation owner based in Nevis,which brought William into a network of locally established planter families.
During his time in the West Indies,William acquired several slave plantations,including the "Waterwork" plantation in Montserrat,the "Cayon Quarter" plantation on Saint Kitts (a gift to William from Philip de Nogle),the "Figtree" plantation in Nevis,and the "Carleton" plantations on Antigua. The "Figtree" plantation was granted by him to Charles Pim on behalf of the Crown in 1678,with William quickly repurchasing the estate for 400,000 pounds of muscovado sugar;the "Carleton" plantations were granted to his older brother,Redmond in 1679,though three years later William purchased them from him for 100,000 pounds of muscovado sugar.
On 20 December 1679,William was awarded a baronetcy by the Crown;the Stapleton baronetcy became extinct in 1995 after the 10th baronet left no male heir. [3] William died in Paris in 1686,leaving complicated financial affairs behind him. Stapleton's surviving sons were James,who succeeded him as the 2nd Baronet,but died young;the baronetcy was then passed to his second son William,who became the 3rd Baronet;and Miles. He also left a daughter,Mary,who married Irish colonial administrator Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter.
Saint Kitts and Nevis have one of the longest written histories in the Caribbean, both islands being among Spain's and England's first colonies in the archipelago. Despite being only two miles apart and quite diminutive in size, Saint Kitts and Nevis were widely recognized as being separate entities with distinct identities until they were forcibly united in the late 19th century.
The British West Indies (BWI) were colonised British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana and Trinidad and Tobago. Other territories included Bermuda, and the former British Honduras.
Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for the prominent military commander Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Baron Combermere. He had already been created Baron Combermere, of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1814, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He had previously inherited the baronetcy, of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, which was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 March 1677 for his great-great-grandfather Robert Cotton.
Sir John Yeamans, 1st Baronet was an English colonial administrator and planter who served as Governor of Carolina from 1672 to 1674. Contemporary descriptions of Yeamans described him as "a pirate ashore."
The term British West Indies refers to the former English and British colonies and the present-day overseas territories of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean.
The coat of arms of Montserrat consists of an escutcheon (shield) charged with a woman in a green dress holding a golden harp and a black cross. In use since at least 1909, it has been the official coat of arms of the Caribbean island of Montserrat since the island became a British Crown colony in 1962. The escutcheon is featured on the flag of the territory.
A deputy governor is a gubernatorial official who has the authority after the governor, rather like a lieutenant governor.
Colonel Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet was a planter of Barbados and Governor of Jamaica from 1664 to 1671.
Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet was a British colonial governor and military officer. The son of William Shirley, a politically well-connected colonial administrator who served for many years as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Shirley entered the military, serving in the Louisbourg expedition his father organised in 1745. During the Seven Years' War he served on Menorca and in the 1761 Capture of Belle Île.
Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet, of Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, was an English Jacobite and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1740.
The attorney general of the Leeward Islands was the chief law officer of the Leeward Islands. The British crown colony of the Leeward Islands, comprising Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, and Dominica, existed as a political entity, under various names, from 1671 to 1958, when it became part of the West Indies Federation.
The chief justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands.
Sir George Thomas, 1st Baronet was an English colonial government official, who served as Governor of the Leeward Islands.
Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British West Indies, British North America and later Australia.
Irish immigration to Montserrat dates back to the early 17th century before and during the period of plantation owners and slavery. Montserrat is a Caribbean island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is also known as "The Emerald Isle of The Caribbean" due to the large population of people with Irish descent living there. Irish people first arrived to the island in 1632 and people of mixed race with Irish descent still live on the island.
Major-General Sir Evan John Murray-Macgregor of Macgregor, 2nd Baronet, was a Scottish colonial administrator and senior British army officer.
The Stapleton Baronetcy, of the Leeward Islands, is an extinct title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1679 for William Stapleton, who followed Charles II into exile in France, and after the Restoration was appointed deputy-governor of Montserrat and captain-general of the Leeward Islands.
Villa is a neighbourhood in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.
Sir Patrick Trant, known as Sir Patrick Trant, 1st Baronet between 1686 and 1691, was an Anglo-Irish politician and Jacobite.
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