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 His ...
.
It was, in the early years of European settlement, one of the island's chief ports, with export of
bananas and production of
rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels. Rum is produced in nearly every sugar-producing region of the world, such as the Ph ...
being major industries. Following the
English conquest of Jamaica in 1655, General
Luke Stokes 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 Federation of Saint Kitts and ...
with 1,600 people who settled near Port Morant in 1656.
References
Populated places in Jamaica
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