Sir Nicholas Lawes (c. 1652 – 18 June 1731) was a British judge and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Jamaica from 1718 to 1722. Nicholas...
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Jonathan Barnet, an English privateer, in 1720, put on trial by Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica, and hanged in November of that year in Port Royal...
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Lawes is the surname of the following people: Andrea Lawes (born 1962), Canadian female curler Arthur Lawes, 20th century rugby league footballer Courtney...
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succeeded Lord Archibald Hamilton as governor, and was succeeded by Nicholas Lawes. From 1716–1717, Thomas Pitt was Governor of Jamaica; however, he resigned...
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Nicholas Alexander Law (born 29 March 1988) is an English professional footballer who is currently the assistant coach of the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the...
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support for Nicholas had collapsed and he was forced to abdicate, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia (1613–1917). Nicholas signed...
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married to the twenty-three-year-old James Lawes, son of Nicholas Lawes, the island's governor. Nicholas Lawes was also a wealthy planter who had introduced...
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Coffee production in Jamaica began after 1728, when governor Sir Nicholas Lawes introduced the crop near Castleton, north of Kingston. Jamaican Blue Mountain...
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been renewed yet again, this time by Heywood's replacement Governor Nicholas Lawes. Barnet sailed late that year on a trading voyage alongside Jean Bonadvis...
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attacked by a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. Rackham and his crew briefly resisted, but surrendered...
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captured by British sloops and taken to Jamaica instead. On 25 June 1720, Nicholas Lawes, the governor of Jamaica, signed a formal agreement with Jeremy in which...
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General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier, who both in public...
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later first Earl of Carhampton, and his wife, Judith Maria Lawes, daughter of Sir Nicholas Lawes. Her younger sister and devoted companion, Elizabeth, was...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nicholas Hoult. Quotations related to Nicholas Hoult at Wikiquote Nicholas Hoult at IMDb About a Boy interview with...
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licensed to the Govr. for the time being. — N. Lawes, in 1 Oct. 1717 letter to Board of Trade. Lawes presented his case personally at the Board's meeting...
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Maria Lawes, daughter of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica and Elizabeth Cotton (née Lawley), by whom he had eight children: Henry Lawes Luttrell...
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Jamaica, including Thomas Handasyd, Lord Archibald Hamilton and Sir Nicholas Lawes. In 1714, a pamphlet war occurred after Hamilton accused of Beckford...
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by his first marriage, Elizabeth, married as her second husband Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. Their descendants included Anne, Duchess of Cumberland...
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Pitt, 1716-1717 Peter Heywood, 1716–1718 acting[citation needed] Sir Nicholas Lawes, 1718–1722 The Duke of Portland, 1722–4 July 1726 John Ayscough, 1726–1728...
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Cayman Islands. Jamaica's merchants pleaded again with Lawes to do something about Thompson. Lawes commissioned four more 10-gun, 80-man sloops with help...
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1717–1718 Acts of Grace (category 1717 in law)
accept such an offer. In August 1717, soon-to-be Governor of Jamaica Nicholas Lawes advocated both royal clemency and an increased presence of warships...
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aboard the sloop William, in Nassau harbor. The Governor of Jamaica, Nicholas Lawes, directed Captain Jonathan Barnet to take two sloops on a mission to...
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many crops. It is where Sir Nicholas Lawes (1652-1731) introduced the cultivation of coffee to the island in 1728. Lawes was governor of Jamaica from...
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Nick Fuentes (redirect from Nicholas Fuentes)
Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political pundit and live streamer who promotes white supremacist and antisemitic...
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Saint Nicholas Day on December 6. In maritime regions throughout Europe, the name and its derivatives have been especially popular, as St Nicholas is considered...
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Jamaica: Description of the Principal Persons there (about 1720, Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor) in Caribbeana Vol. III (1911), edited by Vere Langford Oliver...
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taken from him and torn to pieces by the pirates.” Rogers’ successor Nicholas Lawes found Deal guilty on the testimony of several witnesses, and Deal was...
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Jamaica, raiding them for slaves which he took back to Cuba. Governor Nicholas Lawes of Jamaica complained to Spanish officials in Trinidad and Cuba and...
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Nicholas Lindsey (born January 18, 1995) is a Florida man convicted of murder in the first degree of a law enforcement officer from the St. Petersburg...
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