162 Timehri. 



The difficulties raised on the part of the Dutch to the English settlers 

 leaving the colony have left behind them the publication in book form in 

 1763 of " The Ca6e and Replication of the Legal Representatives of 

 Jeronimy Clifford, a British subject; and late Merchant and Planter of 

 Surinam, deceased ; to the information of the Directors of the Society of 

 Surinam, presented on the 7th of October, 1762, to Their High Mighti- 

 nesses, the Lords States-General of the United Provinces, upon the 

 Memorial presented by His Excellency Sir Joseph Yorke to the Assembly 

 of Their High Mightinesses on the 13th of July, 1762." 



A most wearisome book and full of repetition, it narrates through 

 478 pages how the Governor of Surinam in 1675 hy his arbitrary 

 proceedings prevented Andrew Clifford from withdrawing his effects 

 from the colony and also prevented Jeronimy Clifford, his son, in 1687, 

 from enjoying a large and valuable estate of 480 acres which he had 

 purchased in 1685, in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, by prohibiting him from 

 transferring his estate out of Surinam : and the estate remained under 

 arrest until 1695. In 1683, Jeronimy Clifford married a rich widow and 

 thereby became possessed of the finest property in Surinam — Corcabo by 

 name, 1,500 acres in extent, which produced about one-sixteenth of all 

 the sugar made in the colony. 



In 1687, Clifford presented several petitions in vain to the Governor 

 and Council to remove the arrest, and for permission to remove his effects 

 to Jamaica. The book goes on to give a detailed account of the various 

 occasions on which Clifford endeavoured to obtain satisfaction and the 

 various obstacles put in his way, but in spite of the fact that till his death 

 in 1737, he made frequent petitions and representations, owing to the 

 persistent prevarications of the Society of Surinam, and the indifference 

 of Their High Mightinesses, he was unable to obtain justice. 



To return to the general body of settlers, all negotiations being 

 completed by Cranfield, the Henry and Sarah (Capt. William Piper) 

 went away from Surinam before the others — and arriving at Port Royal 

 was sent on to Bluetields, three weeks before the other ships arrived. 



After a tedious journey the Commissioners in the Amtrica with the 

 Hercules, reached Jamaica on the 8th September. Vaughan, the Governor, 

 asked them for a narrative "of all proceedings, ' this they declined as not 

 being indicated in their instructions, and the Governor took " great 

 offence." 



At Jamaica Cranfield charged James Davis with having brought from 

 Surinam, contrary to the King's order and that of the States-Genera), 

 Samuel Earl, William Fowler, and three free Indians. 



At a Council Meeting held at St. Jago de la Vega, the 3rd September, 

 1675. 



" His Excellency having communicated unto His Majesty's Council, 

 the arrival of divers of His Majesty's Subjects from Surinam on the good 



