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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 6

17th. Century Overseas Letters Carried Privately
1676 (5 May) entire letter from Sir Richard Hopkins "To The Honourable Sir Thomas Modyford, Baronett, in the island of Jamaica in America". Photo

Note: Sir Thomas Modyford was appointed Governor of Jamaica in February 1664. Under him the island was divided into Parishes.
Under his rule the island prospered though he was said to 'Council in the Kings Name' with pirates and buccaneers, particularly Sir Henry Morgan

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