40 The Beginning of British Honduras
Bayman's Map of 14, July 1787 in the Archives of British
Honduras shows the spelling "Commess Bight" and "Stand
Creek." "Commess Bight" is also shown in Bancroft's His-
tory. Stand Creek and South Stand Creek are the only two
rivers of the colony called creeks. This proves that they be-
long to the phraseology of the same generation of British ad-
venturers. In the British royal proclamations regulating the
planting, trading, sealing, and importation of tobacco from
1620-1639 in Virginia, Somers Isles, St. Christopher and Bar-
badoes "the ports, havens, creeks or places of lading or un-
lading" are often mentioned. And then too, it was the prac-
tice of the Dutch to plant their tobacco in "creeks." At the
South Stand Creek there was the other trading stand. There
too is to-day the Southern Silk Grass Creek, behind Seine
Bight, in the Plascentia Lagoon, called by the Puritans
"Patience Lagoon" and at that time laden with silk grass.
Patience was also the name of one of their pinnaces that often
anchored at their settlement on the site now called Seine
Bight, where a neck of land, 370 yards wide, separates the
lagoon from the sea. What are now called Quamina Caye
and False Caye were then called Patience Islet and Patience
Brother Islet.
 The Puritans named their daughters Patience, Faith,
Prudence, Constance, Hope, just- as the vessels of these colo-
nists were named Blessing, Expectation, Hopewell, and there
were the Gladden and Glory Entrances to the Cockscomb
area. The vessels of this company were the admiration of all
who saw them. The "Jonathan" which came here regularly
to deliver cargo and take in produce gave her name to the
point between the South Stand and the Southern Silk Grass
Creek. When this vessel arrived at Cowes in 1651 her captain,
Robert Harding, and three officers were ordered to bring her
to London, without breaking bulk, to be examined for trad-
ing at Barbadoes. It may then have been owned by Governor
Philip Bell who had "a plentiful estate" there and perhaps
still retained his Cockscomb Coast plantation. Robert Hard-