1768. £1000 a year voted to Governor Woodley, in addition to his former salary of £1200; also a government house.

1769. August 17th, St. John's, Antigua, nearly destroyed by fire; custom and store houses burnt; government order £1000 to be distributed among the sufferers; 260 houses consumed.

1770. £346. 2s. 6d. collected at Liverpool for the sufferers by the fire at St. John's,

Value of exports from Antigua to Great Britain £430,210; to North America £35,551 7s. 6d. ; to the other islands £229 10s.

1772. The Chatham, Admiral Parry, with the Active and Seahorse frigates, driven on shore at English Harbor by a gale.

August, All men of war driven on shore by a gale, and many ships founder their anchors in St. John's Harbor.

Lieutenant General Oughton appointed Lieutenant Governor, vice Lord Hawley, deceased. 1774. Population 2590 whites, 37,808 negroes. 1775. Assembly thank his majesty for appointing Sir Ralph Payne Governor, and petition for his return to the Leeward Islands.

1776. W. M. Burt, Esq. appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, in room of Sir R. Payne.

1778. Mr. Baxter, a methodist preacher, arrives and establishes a society.

1779. Antigua in great distress for water, happily relieved by abundance of rain.

Antigua exports 3382 hhds. of sugar.

1779. Mr. Baxter increases the Methodist society to 600.

1780. Near one fifth of the negroes stated to have died by dysentry in this and the two preceding years.

1782. Antigua produced 16,200 hhds. of sugar. 1783. Methodist chapel completed; society greatly increases to upwards of 1000 members.

Antigua produced 3900 hhds. of sugar, being 12,300 less than last year.

1785. By an act of the Assembly a jury of six white inhabitants were ordered for the trial of capital offences; also the evidence of one slave against another to be admitted, but not against a free person.

1787. Imports of slaves to Antigua in a medium of four years 768, exports 100.

Population 2590 whites, 1230 free people of color, 37,808 slaves.

Number of slaves under the care of the Moravian Brethren 5465. Number of Methodists 2000.

Antigua produced and exported 19,500 hhds. of sugar.

1788. Valuation of property in Antigua, patented estates taxed per acre £69,277; number of negroes 36,000.

1789. Five hundred and seven Moravians baptized in St. John's; 217 in Gracehill.

In February the number of Methodists in society were 2800, of Moravians 2000.

Antigua exported 12,000 hhds. of sugar.

1791. Moravian congregation at Gracehill and St. John's consisted of 7400 persons; number of missionaries only 5.

1792. Six hundred and forty negroes baptized by Moravians.

Three thousand nine hundred hogsheads of sugar exported.

Several plantations destroyed by a hurricane on the 1st August.

1793. Number of Methodists in Antigua 2240.

A fever brought into the island by H. M. ship Experiment from Grenada.

1798. Value of slaves estimated £1,512,320. 1799. Antigua exported 8300 hhds. of sugar. 1802. Eight hundred new members added to the Society of Methodists in the last eighteen months. 1803. Society of Methodists amount to 4000.

Import of slaves in a medium of two years 436, export 100.

1804. Three hundred Methodists had died; society consists of 22 whites, 3516 blacks and people of color.

1805. Antigua exports 3200 hhds. of sugar.

Population 3000 whites, 1300 people of color, 36,000 slaves.

1810. Population 3000 whites, 37,000 slaves. Sugar exported 16,000 hhds.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHRONOLOGY OF TRINIDAD, FROM A. D. 1498 to a. d.

1498. July 1, COLUMBUS discovers Trinidad. 1501. A Spanish ship arrives, and the crew, pretending to commence a settlement, collect and massacre a number of natives; take 180 prisoners. 1533. The supreme council of the Indies declared it lawful to make slaves of the Indians of Trinidad. Since the year 1510 the Spaniards had effected something like a settlement, which they afterwards deserted.

1593. Sir Robert Dudley, with a British ship, landed at Trinidad, and remained forty-two days

with the Indians. Sir W. Raleigh also landed there this year.

1609. September 18, Captain Harcourt, in the Dartmore, touched at Trinidad, where he found three English ships.

1629. An abbey built by the Spaniards, who had conquered the Indians and effected a settlement.

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1674. Trinidad sacked and plundered of 100,000 pieces of eight, by a French expedition under Le Sieur de Maintenon.

After being thus plundered by the French, Trinidad again returns to its original masters, the Spaniards, and nothing of any interest occurs until after it is wrested from them by the English. 1797. Island of Trinidad taken by the English under Sir R. Abercrombie and Rear Admiral Hervey; Sir J. Picton appointed Governor.

Population 2151 whites, 4476 free colored people, 10,009 slaves, 1082 Indians.

1798. Population 2186 whites, 4799 free people of color, 11,021 slaves, 1005 Indians. 1799. Trinidad exported 4500 hhds. of sugar.

Population 2128 whites, 4594 free colored people, 13,311 slaves, 1143 Indians.

1800. Population 2140 whites, 4582 free people of color, 15,810 slaves, 1149 Indians.

1801. Population 2153 whites, 4909 free colored people, 15,975 slaves, 1202 Indians.

1802. By 4th article of the treaty of Amiens, the full property and sovereignty of the island of Trinidad is ceded to his Britanic Majesty.

June 29th, W. Fullarton, Esq., Samuel Wood, Esq., and General Picton are appointed commissioners for executing the office of Governor of Trinidad.