Greetings List, I thought you might be interested in this link to photos as described below. About half-way down the page, there is a photo of a Cotton Tree near the Cross Roads at Morant Bay . Would that be Tom Cringle's Cotton Tree? Or were there many large Cotton Trees in Jamaica back then? Enjoy, Augusta Elmwood New Orleans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Audra A. Diptee" <adiptee@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> To: <H-CARIBBEAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 7:43 AM Subject: ANN: Photos of Morant Bay Rebellion [Jamaica] > Subject: ANN: Photos of Morant Bay Rebellion [Jamaica] > From: "Michael Stone" <ms1@Princeton.EDU> > Date: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:39 am > > > The Graphic Arts Division of Princeton University's Firestone Library > recently acquired an album of rare albumen photographs that includes 59 of > the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. The album's careful compilation > includes detailed notes of the people, places, and dates relevant to each > photograph. It may be the work of a surgeon in the British Army, Alexander > Dudgeon Gulland, MD Edinburgh University, who appears in the album. > Appointed Staff Assistant Surgeon in 1854, he served with the 6th Foot, > which was in Jamaica in 1865. Some of the photos, and more information: > > http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2009/10/album_covering_the_jamaica_reb.html > > This album is still being processed and will soon be available for > research in the reading room of Rare Books and Special Collections, > Firestone Library. > > Michael Stone > Executive Director > Program in Latin American Studies > 309-316 Burr Hall | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544 > www.princeton.edu/plas/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Alba Dunlop wrote: What a wonderful find and thanks for sharing. I am very interested in this as my half brother's grand mother lived in Morant Bay at the time of the rebellion. She was just a baby at the time but I remember the stories she told of her family being rescued by a family servant and taken to a boat in the harbour. One of her uncles were killed and her father and other uncle were wounded. They were the sons of Rev. S. H Cooke. It was a brutal time and age. If I am not mistaken Tom Cringle's tree was on the road to Spanish town and still stood in the 1950's Alba Dunlop Researching Hooper (Jamaica, Ireland and Panama), Calnek (Jamaica), Blakely (Manchioneal), Blackford (probably St Elizabeth) and Benaim (possibly Kingston). >Greetings List, I thought you might be interested in this link to photos as >described below. About half-way down the page, there is a photo of a Cotton >Tree near the Cross Roads at Morant Bay . Would that be Tom Cringle's >Cotton Tree? Or were there many large Cotton Trees in Jamaica back then? > >Enjoy, >Augusta Elmwood >New Orleans > > > >

Hi Augusta: That isn't Tom Cringle's Cotton Tree. That famous cotton tree, which no longer exists, was located on the road between Kingston and Spanish Town, near to the Ferry Inn. There is an article about it in the series by Dr. Rebecca Tortello in the Gleaner, "Pieces of the Past", at http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0020.html Thanks for the link and the photos about the Morant Bay Rebellion. Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Augusta Elmwood" <augustae@bellsouth.net> To: "CARIBBEAN Roots Web" <caribbean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:34 PM Subject: [Carib] Fw: Photos of Morant Bay Rebellion [Jamaica] > Greetings List, I thought you might be interested in this link to photos > as > described below. About half-way down the page, there is a photo of a > Cotton > Tree near the Cross Roads at Morant Bay . Would that be Tom Cringle's > Cotton Tree? Or were there many large Cotton Trees in Jamaica back then? > > Enjoy, > Augusta Elmwood > New Orleans

Thanks for the interesting link, Dorothy. I found a few other interesting accounts and stories as well. Augusta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Kew" <dkew@cogeco.ca> To: <caribbean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [Carib] Fw: Photos of Morant Bay Rebellion [Jamaica] > Hi Augusta: > > That isn't Tom Cringle's Cotton Tree. That famous cotton tree, which no > longer exists, was located on the road between Kingston and Spanish Town, > near to the Ferry Inn. There is an article about it in the series by Dr. > Rebecca Tortello in the Gleaner, "Pieces of the Past", at > http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0020.html > > Thanks for the link and the photos about the Morant Bay Rebellion. > > Dorothy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Augusta Elmwood" <augustae@bellsouth.net> > To: "CARIBBEAN Roots Web" <caribbean@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:34 PM > Subject: [Carib] Fw: Photos of Morant Bay Rebellion [Jamaica] > > >> Greetings List, I thought you might be interested in this link to photos >> as >> described below. About half-way down the page, there is a photo of a >> Cotton >> Tree near the Cross Roads at Morant Bay . Would that be Tom Cringle's >> Cotton Tree? Or were there many large Cotton Trees in Jamaica back then? >> >> Enjoy, >> Augusta Elmwood >> New Orleans > > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and > Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CARIBBEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.52/2484 - Release Date: 11/06/09 07:38:00