Peter Beckford (colonial administrator)
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Peter Beckford (colonial administrator)
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Colonel Peter Beckford was an English-born planter, merchant, military officer and colonial administrator who served as the acting governor of Jamaica in 1702. A prominent member of the planter class in the English colony of Jamaica, by the time of his death Beckford had acquired ownership over 20 plantations, 1,200 slaves and earnt what historian Noel Deer described as "perhaps the greatest fortune ever made in planting."
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English-born planter, merchant, military officer and colonial administrator
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beckford_(colonial_administrator)
date created:
2007-02-17T21:36:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T01:08:23Z
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