PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Rulers
were...
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King OLDMAN I 1661/1677
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King OLDMAN II 1677/1686
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King JEREMY I 1686/c1720, born about 1639,
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King JEREMY II (qv).
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JOHN HANNIBAL, Governor c1719/1729, married and had
issue.
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JOHN BRITON, Governor c1729/c1757.
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King JEREMY II c1720/c1729, born about 1669, married
and had issue.
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King EDWARD (qv)
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King GEORGE I (qv)
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King PETER c1729/1739 (cousin), General 1722/1729.
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King EDWARD 1739/1755
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King GEORGE I [ George Samuel Roderick Kandler] 1755/1777,
crowned February 1755, married and had issue.
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King GEORGE II (qv)
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Prince Isaac, took the title of Duke of York, acted
as Regent for his brother.
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Prince STEPHEN (qv)
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Prince Eugene
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King GEORGE II [George Augustus] 1777/1800, born
about 1758, crowned March 1777, married between 14 and 22 wives, and had
issue. He was killed by his subjects in 1800.
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King GEORGE III [George Frederick Augustus] (qv)
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King ROBERT CHARLES [Robert Charles Frederick] (qv)
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Prince STEPHEN 1800/1816 (Regent)
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King GEORGE III [George Frederick Augustus] 1816/1824,
crowned at Belize on the 18th January 1816, born about 1796, killed by
one of his wives 9th March 1824.
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King ROBERT CHARLES [Robert Charles Frederick] 1824/1842,
crowned at Belize in April 1824, married a number of wives including (a)
Queen Juliana and had issue. He died October 1842.
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King GEORGE IV [George Augustus Frederick] (by Juliana)
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Prince William Clarence (by Juliana), born about
1833, died in 1848 in England.
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Prince Alexander (by Juliana)
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Princess Agnes Anna (by Juliana), married an Englishman.
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Princess Victoria (by Juliana), married a Mosquito
Indian and had issue.
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Chief WILLIAM HENRY CLARENCE (qv)
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Prince Andrew Hendy
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Chief ROBERT HENRY CLARENCE (qv)
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Princess Matilda (by a secondary wife), married and
had issue.
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Chief JONATHAN CHARLES FREDERIC (qv)
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Chief ROBERT FREDERIC (qv)
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Regency 1842/1845
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 King
GEORGE IV [George Augustus Frederick] 1845/c1864, the last Mosquitan ruler
with the title of King, by 1860 the British decided to leave Nicaragua
and signed a treaty with Nicaragua, the Treaty of Managua, establishing
a Mosquito reservation which was to be considered an autonomous politcal
entity, but within the boundaries of Nicaragua and changing the title of
the Mosquito king to that of "chief" on the 12th of September 1861. Hereafter,
George Augustus Frederick's title became "hereditary chief of Mosquito."
George Augustus Frederic seems to have had an affinity for non-Indian women,
having an infatuation with the white woman, Miss Bell, and he eventually
married a black woman apparently late in his life, because the king was
still a bachelor in the early 1860's. He died 1864 (27th November 1865?),
without leaving issue, being succeeded by his sister's son.
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Chief WILLIAM HENRY CLARENCE c1864/1879, born about
1855, poisoned in May 1879.
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Chief GEORGE V [George William Albert Hendy] 1884/1888,
died of alcohol poisoning in 1888.
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Chief JONATHAN CHARLES FREDERIC 1888/1890, died of
an accident in 11th November 1890.
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Regency 1890/1891 [Charles Patterson (vice-president
of the Council)]
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 Chief
ROBERT HENRY CLARENCE 1891/1894 (1908), born about 1872, on 12 February
1894, the Nicaraguans with 300 soldiers forcibly took possession of Bluefields,
while the inhabitants of the town were asleep. The soldiers seized the
government buildings and the archives of the Mosquito Reservation, and
raised the Nicaraguan flag. The Nicaraguan commissioner, General Carlos
Lacayo, gave as his excuse for attacking Bluefields that the Mosquito were
being misgoverned by Jamaican blacks. Chief Robert Henry Clarence and his
government were declared rebels, he was rescued by the British and carried
on board a British man-of-war to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, and then to
Jamaica, where he was given asylum by the British and a pension for life.
He died in the Public General Hospital of Kingston, following an operation,
in January 1908.
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Chief ROBERT FREDERIC 1908/-, born about 1855, died
after 1928.
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Chief NORTON CUTHBERT CLARENCE (see above)
Source: Ethnohistory 45(2): 277-318 [1998] by Michael
D. Olien, University of Georgia. |
