- John Davis
Robert Searle was one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is known of his early life. The famous buccaneer chronicler, Esquemeling, states that Searle was “born at Jamaica,” but this seems unlikely, since that island did not become an English dominion until 1655. Searle’s career as a “gentleman of fortune” was marred by frequent quarrels with Sir Thomas Modyford, royal governor of Jamaica, … - John Evans
John Evans (died c. 1723) was a Welsh pirate who had a short but successful career in the Caribbean. Evans was the master of a sloop operating from the island of Nevis until he lost his employment there. For a while he found employment as a mate of ships sailing from Jamica. This was a time when there was a surplus of seamen, so that wages were low and berths scarce, and towards the end of September 1722 Evans and a few friends decided to try their luck at pirating. - Gary Roughead
Among his six operational commands, Roughead was the first officer to command both classes of Aegis ships, having commanded USS Barry and USS Port Royal . As a Flag Officer, Roughead commanded Cruiser Destroyer Group 2, the George Washington Battle Group; and U.S. Second Fleet/NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic and Naval Forces North Fleet East. - Joseph Broussard
Joseph Broussard, also known as Beausoleil, (1702 - 1765) was a leader of the Acadian people in Acadia; later Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. He was born in Port Royal in 1702 but he lived much of his life along the Petitcodiac River. With his wife Agnes, he had eleven children. After the construction of Fort Beausejour in 1751, he lent aid to the garrison there. He became a leader of an armed resistance following the expulsion of the Acadians, … - Joseph Dudley
Joseph Dudley (September 23 1647 - April 2 1720), colonial governor of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1715, the son of Thomas Dudley, was born and died in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1665, became a member of the general court, and in 1682 was sent by Massachusetts to London to prevent the threatened revocation of her charter by Charles II. There, with an eye to his personal advancement, … - John Barnwell
John Barnwell (1671-1724) was a native of Ireland who emigrated to colonial South Carolina in 1701. By the time the Tuscarora War began in 1711 he had become an important official of the colony. South Carolina sent two armies against the Tuscarora in North Carolina, the first of which, campaigning in late 1711 and early 1712, was under Barnwell's command. The army was made up mostly of Indians, especially Yamasee. Barnwell defeated the Tuscarora and arranged a peace treaty, … - Richard Sawkins
Richard Sawkins or "Hawkins" (d. May 22, 1680) was a British buccaneer who partipated in the Pacific Adventure, a privateering expedition headed by Captain John Coxon. Although little is known of his early life, Sawkins was captured by "HMS Success" and later imprisoned in Port Royal while awaiting trial for piracy as late as December 1, 1679. - St. George Tucker
St. George Tucker was a lawyer and professor of law at the College of William and Mary. Born near Port Royal, Bermuda, he traveled to Virginia to study law at the College of William and Mary in 1772 and was approved for the bar on 4 April 1774. He then settled permanently in Williamsburg and began practice in the county courts. He served in the Virginia militia and cavalry in the American Revolutionary War. - Jean du Casse
Jean Baptiste du Casse was a French Buccaneer and Admiral. In his youth, he wasn't allowed into the French Navy because his parents were Huguenots. He then went into the slave trade with the "Compagnie de Sénégal", sailing between Africa and the Caribbean. With the money of the slave trade he bought a ship in Saint-Domingue and privateered a packed Dutch ship. He sailed to France and offered half of the loot to the Crown. - David Marteen
David Marteen (fl. 1663-1665) was a Dutch privateer based in Tortuga during the mid-17th century, known primarily as the sole non-English Captain who participated in the raids against Spanish strongholds in present-day Mexico and Nicaragua during 1663 until 1665. Although raids against the Spanish were prohibited under British law, … - Philippe Bequel
Philippe Bequel was a 17th century French privateer. Possibly born in La Rochelle, France, Bequel may have served under privateers Mathurin Gabaret and François Beaulieu during the 1650s and, by the end of the decade, he had become captain of his own ship. Operating from the port of Cagway (later renamed Port Royal after its capture by the British several years later), Bequel was granted permission by Governor D' Oyley to attack Spanish shipping on December 13, 1659. - Jean Boudreau
Jean Boudreau was a political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Acadia, probably at Port Royal, in 1748, the son of Charles Boudrot, a descendant of one of the first settlers at Port Royal. Jean and his parents escaped the Great Upheaval in 1755 and travelled to Quebec City via New Brunswick in 1757. Around 1764, the family settled at Deschambault, where his older sister had married the seigneur Louis Fleury de la Gorgendière. - Guillaume de Lamoignon
Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617-1677) was a French jurist. He is known for work which he did towards preparing the codification of French laws. He became in 1644 master of requests in the Parlement. He took an active part in the Fronde of the Parlement against Mazarin. He became first president of the Parlement in 1658. A distinguished member of the Society of the Holy Sacrament, he was greatly devoted to the Catholic cause. - René Rapin
René Rapin was a French Jesuit and writer. He was born at Tours and entered the Society of Jesus in 1639. He taught rhetoric, and wrote extensively both in verse and prose. - Henri Membertou
Henri Membertou (died 18 September 1611) was the "sakmow" (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally "sakmow" of the Kespukwitk district, he was appointed as Grand Chief by the "sakmowk" of the other six districts. Chief Membertou is notable for being the first Native leader to have been baptized in New France, … - Mathieu Molé
Mathieu Molé was a French statesman. The son of Edouard Molé (d. 1614), who was for a time procureur-general, he was educated at the University of Orléans. Admitted conseiller in 1606, he was "président aux requêtes" in 1610, "procureur-général" in succession to Nicolas de Bellièvre in 1614, and took part in the assembly of the Notables summoned at Rouen in 1617. He fought in vain against the setting up of special tribunals, or commissions, … - Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 - January 14 1882) was a photographer prominent for his work on subjects in the American Civil War and the Western United States. O'Sullivan was born in either Ireland or New York City. As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady. When the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army and, over the next year, fought in Beaufort, Port Royal, Fort Walker, and Fort Pulaski. - Joseph Whidbey
Joseph Whidbey (1757- October 9, 1833) was a member of the British Royal Navy who served with on the Vancouver Expedition 1791-1795, and later achieved renown as a naval engineer. Little is recorded of Whidbey's life before his warranting as a sailing master in 1779. After years of service during the war of American Independence, he received a peacetime appointment to HMS "Europa", where with then-Lieutenant Vancouver, he conducted a detailed survey of Port Royal. - Carl Abrahams
Carl Abrahams (May 14 1911 - April 10 2005) was a Jamaican painter from the parish of St. Andrew. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica and began his career in commercial art began at the age of 17 as a cartoonist and an illustrator for The Daily Gleaner and The Jamaica Times. In 1937, while on a working holiday in Jamaica, Augustus John, the iconic British artist, encouraged Abrahams to begin painting professionally. - William Tailer
William Tailer (1676 - March 8, 1732) was the son of Bostonian William Tailer and a Colonial-era politician. He was Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and in 1712 was one of the commissioners to treat with the Six Nations at Albany, New York, and commanded one of the regiments raised to take Port Royal. - Bancroft Gherardi
Bancroft Gherardi (10 November 1832 - 10 December 1903) was born in Jackson, Louisiana. He was appointed Acting Midshipman 26 June 1846 and served on the "Ohio" during the Mexican-American War. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1851 and graduated the next year. Ordered to the "St. Louis", he cruised the Mediterranean, and after promotion to Lieutenant in 1855 he was ordered to the "Saratoga". - Charles Clémencet
Charles Clémencet was a French Benedictine historian. He was born near Autun, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work "Art de Vérifier les Dates" (the usual short form of a long title). He also wrote part of the monumental "Histoire littéraire de la France", and the history of the Port Royal. - Bartolomeo Portugues
Bartolomeo Portugues (16??-16??) was a Portuguese buccaneer who attacked Spanish shipping in the late 1660s; he also established one of the earliest sets of rules popularly known in pirate lore as "the pirates' code", later used by the pirates of the seventeenth century such as John Philips, Edward Low, and Bartholomew Roberts. Arriving in the Caribbean sometime in the early 1660s, as did many others during the decade, Portugues operated off Campeche from 1666 to 1669. - Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers (4 November 1819 - 8 January 1892) was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, as Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rodgers was the son of George Washington Rodgers and Anna Maria Perry. His maternal grandfather was Christopher Raymond Perry. Rodgers was appointed a midshipman in 1833. - Louis Ellies Dupin
Louis Ellies du Pin, or Dupin, (June 17, 1657-June 6, 1719) was a French ecclesiastical historian, who came of a noble family of Normandy. He was born at Paris. His mother, a Vitart, was the niece of Marie des Moulins, grandmother of the poet Jean Racine. When ten years old he entered the college of Harcourt, where he graduated M.A. in 1672. At the age of twenty Dupin accompanied Racine, … - François Vavasseur
François Vavasseur was a French Jesuit humanist and controversialist. He entered the Society of Jesus, 25 October 1621, taught humanities and rhetoric for seven years, then positive theology and Scripture at Bourges, and later at Paris. His first work was a paraphrase of the "Book of Job" in Latin hexameters (1637), resumed and accompanied by a commentary in 1679. He published also "Theurgicon" (1644), on the miracles of Christ, "Elegiarum liber" (1656), … - William Montagu 5th Duke of Manchester
William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (October 21 1771-March 18 1843), known as Viscount Mandeville from 1771 to 1783, was a British peer, colonial administrator and politician. Manchester was the son of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester. He was Governor of Jamaica from 1808 to 1827, and prepared the colony for the emancipation of slaves. In 1815 he dealt with the aftermath of destruction of Port Royal by fire and of the plantations by a hurricane. - William Hargood
Admiral Sir William Hargood, KCB, GCH, RN (6 May 1762 - 12 December 1839) was a British naval officer who served with distinction through the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, during which he gained an unforunate reputation for bad luck, which seemed to reverse following his courageous actions at the battle of Trafalgar in command of HMS "Belleisle". Born in 1762 into a poor naval family, the son of a purser, … - Thomas Duffus Hardy
Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (May 22, 1804 - June 15, 1878), English antiquary, was the third son of Major Thomas Bartholomew Price Hardy, and belonged to a family several members of which had distinguished themselves in the British navy. Born at Port Royal in Jamaica, he crossed over to England and in 1819 entered the Record Office in the Tower of London. Trained under Henry Petrie (1768-1842) he gained a sound knowledge of palaeography, … - Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. - Alexandre Vinet
Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (June 17, 1797 - May 4, 1847), was a Swiss critic and theologian. He was born near Lausanne in Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian. His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, … - Antoine Laumet De La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac
Antoine Laumet, "dit" de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a French explorer, was a colourful figure in the history of New France. The self-styled Lamothe-Cadillac was the son of one Jean Laumet, an assistant magistrate in the local court. His mother, a modest home-maker, was born Jeanne Pechagut. Born at Les Laumets in the hamlet of Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, in Gascony, he was educated in a military school. - Jean Domat
Jean Domat, or Daumat (November 30, 1625 - March 14, 1696), French jurisconsult, was born at Clermont in Auvergne. He was closely in sympathy with the Port-Royalists, was intimate with Pascal, and at the death of that celebrated philosopher was entrusted with his private papers. He is principally known from his elaborate legal digest, in three volumes 4to, under the title of "Lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel" (1689), … - William Alexander
Sir William Alexander ("c." 1602 - 18 May 1638) was the founder, in 1629, of the Scottish colony at Port-Royal, now the site of modern Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He was the son of colonizer William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, but predeceased his father and never assumed his title. - Richard Simon
Richard Simon (May 13, 1638 - April 11, 1712), was a French biblical critic. He was born at Dieppe. His early education took place at the college of the Fathers of the Oratory. The kindness of a friend enabled him to study theology at Paris, where he showed an interest in Hebrew and other Oriental languages. At the end of his course he was sent, as was usual, to learn philosophy at the College of Juilly. - Marie de Rohan-Montbazon duchesse de Chevreuse
Marie Aimée de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Chevreuse was a French aristocrat of great personal charm who placed herself at the center of all the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century in France. Marie de Rohan, styled "Mlle de Montbazon", was the daughter of Hercule de Rohan, duc de Montbazon of the House of Rohan, possessed of great estates in Brittany and Anjou. - Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne was a Baroque era painter of the French school. Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. He moved to Paris in 1621, where he worked with Nicolas Poussin on the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg under the direction of Nicolas Duchesne, whose daughter he married. After the death of his protector Duchesne, Champaigne worked for the Queen Mother, Marie de Medicis, and for Richelieu, … - Jean du Vergier de Hauranne
Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, abbot of Saint-Cyran (1581 - 1643) was a French monk who introduced Jansenism into France. He was the spiritual director and the confessor of the convent of Port-Royal, which under his leadership from 1633 to 1636 became a center of Jansenism. He studied religion with Cornelius Jansen, and later became a regular correspondent with Jansen, urging him to prepare his book "Augustinus", the source of the Jansenist teachings. - Daniel D'Auger de Subercase
Daniel d'Auger de Subercase naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland, born Orthez, Béarn died Cannes. d'Auger de Subercase was baptised a Protestant, served about 10 years in the land forces before joining the navy and sailed for Québec in 1687 to be named lieutenant-commander, garrison adjutant and adjutant general. Subercase was then appointed as governor of Plaisance on April 1, 1702 but did not arrive at his post until 1703. - Marc-René De Voyer De Paulmy D'Argenson
Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy, 1st marquis d'Argenson was a French politician, born 4 November, 1652 in Venice, died in Paris 8 May, 1721. Argenson was born in Venice where his father, also Marc-René, was ambassador. According to tradition, he was declared a godson of the Venetian Republic which accounted for the name Marc (Saint Mark being the patron saint of Venice). He was minister and lieutenant-general of police for 21 years, from 1697 to 1718.
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