Henry Archibold

Henry Archibold (also Archbold, Archbould) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the English Army who rose to prominence in the colonisation of Jamaica.


He was a Captain in Major-General James Heane's regiment.[1]:117

Following the invasion of Jamaica he was first posted to Rio Cobre valley. However he was relocated to the Liguanea area for military reasons.[2]:136 Here he established the Constant Spring plantation. With the use of the unpaid labour of soldiers under his command he developed “one of the best plantations in the island” (Commander William Brayne).[2]:136 In 1656 he was one of several regimental commanders accused of forcing their soldiers to work as unpaid servants, however he was acquitted.[2]:141 Archibold was responsible for developing his plantation to produce cash crops for export, and by 1658 he produced over 2,000 pounds of cocoa for export.[2]:154

On 30 November, 1671 he married Joanna Wilhelmina Morgan, the daughter of Edward Morgan, Deputy Governor of Jamaica. This also meant that he was brother-in-law to Henry Morgan who had married Mary Morgan, Joanna's elder sister.[3]

References
  1. Venables, Robert (1900). Firth, Charles Harding (ed.). The narrative of General Venables, with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655;. London,: Longmans, Green, and Co.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. Otremba, Eric (2012). "Enlightened Institutions: Science, Plantations, and Slavery in the English Atlantic, 1626-1700". University Digital Conservancy. University of Minnesota.
  3. Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1935). The Life of Sir Henry Morgan, by Brig.-General E. A. Cruikshank. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada.
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