Baptized Nov 19, 1643 at St. James, Clerkenwell, London, England.
Governor of Jamaica in 1702, where he first emigrated in 1662, probably following the footsteps of his uncle, Captain Richard Beckford, who was trading there since 1659.
His second wife, Anne, was a relative of Colonel Thomas Ballard, a leading planter. In the cathedral at Spanish Town, where he was buried, is a white marble slab in his memory, inscribed: “Here lyes Interr’d the body of the Honble. Coll. Peter Beckford, late Presidt. of the Councill, sometime Lieut. Govr. and Commander in Chief of this Island, who departed this life the 3rd Apr. 1710 in the 67th year of his age.”
Jamaican connections in Livorno #2: The Beckfords Friday, Oct 8 2010
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYBY-6BF : 21 September 2020), Peter Beckford, 1643.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beckford
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