64 The Beginning of British Honduras

ence from 1641-50. Colson remained in the colony at the
Stands and carried on in a new way that was consonant with
the changed conditions, and we find his name at four differ-
ent islets and points. The trader Glover, of the Company of
Merchant Adventurers of London, gave his name to the
Moskito Indian headman whose son Paddy Glover was well
known on the Wanks or Walloss River in 1699 as a "sookyer"
or "walloss" as the witch doctors were called. Roger Glover
of London and Nevis, merchant, was "long an adventurer to
the Caribbee Islands" and in 1629 made a petition to the King
"to give him time to pay his debts and again adventure to
those plantations." As a merchant he sailed to the Amazon
in the ship "Marmaduke" where in 1631 he picked up six
survivors of the fall of Captain Roger North's fort. He knew
the "Hopewell' at Nevis, from which island Captain Willis
had many men on Tortuga. In his will dated 14 November
1636 when he was at Nevis, his brother Richard Glover, of
London, merchant, was mentioned with his sisters, nieces,
partners, the Indian servant Roger, and considerable trading
in tobacco, with the ship "Increase" which was the successor
of the "Marmaduke." In November 1666 Sir James Modyford
was appointed by letters patent governor of the island of
Providence or St. Catherine, and his brother Sir Thomas
Modyford who was first in Barbadoes as governor became
governor of Jamaica 1668-71. Both were partners of Lucifer
who now preyed on the Spanish shipping between Havana
and Mexico.
 The settling of British Honduras had its origin with Eng-
lish adventurers from Providence-Mosquitia and Kitts-Nevis.
Jamaica had nothing to do with it. After the conquest of this
island by Penn and Venables it began to play the role of step-
father to the colony and to act as though the Puritan activities
had not taken place or had not prepared the way for them,
because the new rulers of Jamaica disliked the Puritans. It
was this very hostility which had caused the Purilans to leave
England.