Port Morant is a town in
Saint Thomas Parish, southeastern
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispan ...
.
It was, in the early years of European settlement, one of the island's chief ports, with export of
banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry (botany), berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa (genus), Musa''. In some countries, Cooking banana, bananas used for ...
s and production of
rum being major industries. Following the
English conquest of Jamaica in 1655, General
Luke Stokes Luke Stokes (or Stoakes) was an English colonialist who was twice governor of Nevis before relocating with his family and 1,600 other settlers to the Port Morant area of Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea ...
arrived from
Nevis
Nevis is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute one country: the Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation ...
with 1,600 people who settled near Port Morant in 1656.
References
Populated places in Jamaica
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