Henry Archibold (also Archbold, Archbould) (died November, 1669) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the English Army who rose to prominence in the early stages of the English

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. He was a

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in Major-General

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's regiment. Following the

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he was first posted to

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valley. However he was relocated to the

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area for military reasons. Here he established the

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plantation. With the use of the unpaid labour of soldiers under his command he developed “one of the best plantations in the island” (Commander

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). In 1656 he was one of several regimental commanders accused of forcing their soldiers to work as unpaid servants, however he was acquitted. Archibold was responsible for developing his plantation to produce

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s for export, and by 1658 he produced over 2,000 pounds of

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for export. On 30 November 1671 his son married Joanna Wilhelmina Morgan, the daughter of Edward Morgan, Deputy Governor of Jamaica. This also meant that he was related by marriage to

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who had married Mary Elizabeth Morgan, Joanna's elder sister.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Archibold, Henry Jamaican planters 1669 deaths Year of birth unknown Colony of Jamaica people