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2 unusual facts about Jeremy II


Jeremy II

Little is known about his reign, though he tightened relations with Great Britain through the colony of Jamaica.

On 25 June 1720, Nicholas Lawes, the governor of Jamaica signed a formal agreement with a Miskito king named Jeremy to provide 50 men to track down Maroons (former enslaved Africans who had escaped bondage) in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.



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