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In the yeare 1625, Capt. THOMAS WARNER wt: 3 ships 
from London designed to attempt something upon the 
Spanyards at Trinidada, but it proved bootless, and after 
a short stay sayled thence to the Island St. Christopher’s.* 
The yeare after, an English ship being in those parts 
* What the something was that worthy Captain Warner designed to 
attempt upon the Spaniards, must be inferred. As a faét, a Warrant 
was issued on the 25th of January 1625, for Letters of Marque to Ralphe 
Merrifield, a London Merchant, to set forthin warlike manner the Ship 
called the Guifte of God, of London, of the burthen of 40 tons. This 
vessel mounted 6 pieces of Ordnance, had 4o men, and was viétualled 
for 12 months. Her Captain was Thomas Warner. 
In 1624, Captain Thomas Warner founded English Dominion in the 
West Indian Islands, by making a settlement at St. Christophers, com- 
monly called St. Kitts. Thence the Flag of St. George was carried to 
Nevis, Montserrat, and Antigua. He was Knighted at Hampton Court 
on the 4th of Otober 1629; and died at Saint Kitts on the toth of 
March 1648. (Old Style). | 
Descendants of Sir Thomas Warner in the 1oth and 11th Generations 
are to be found throughout the British Empire. Trinidad has for many 
years past been the Head Quarters of those Warners who dwell in the 
West Indies. 
For some account of Sir Thomas Warner, and his Colonies in the 
Caribbee Islands, see 
The Works of Captain John Smith, of Virginia and New England 
[Arber’s Edition, Birmingham, 1884]. fp. 898 to 980. 
The Relation of tke first Settlement of St. Christopher's and Nevis by 
Fohn Hilton, Storekeeper and Chief Gunner of Nevis. April 20th 1675 ; 
and other Manuscripts among the colleétion in Egerton, 2,395, in the 
British Museum. | 
Lawrence Archer MSS. (Warner Pedigree), British Museum. 
Depositions and Pleadings in the case of the inhabitants of Barbados, 
vs. Earl of Carlisle, &c. C, 94 in Rawlinson MSS, in the Bodleian, 
The Introduétion to Sloane MS. 3662. 
Calendar of State Papers (Colonial), passim, 
Chronological History of the West Indies, by Thomas Southey. Vol. 
I, passim, 
Antigua and the Antiguans (London), 1844). Vol. I, pp. 5 to 8; 
Vol. I, pp. 305, to 312. 
A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century. (Edited by John Cordy 
Jeaffreson). 
See also, the French Writers Du Tertre, Rochefort and Labat, 
