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Settled in 1774 by Colonel Thomas Williams Jr., Good Hope began as a sugar estate and grew to a village to support the workers after Emancipation. In the eighteenth century the Good Hope Estate belonged to John Tharpe, then the largest ...
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John Tharpe, an Englishman who came to the West Indies to seek his fortune, was one of the most successful of his kind - he actually did make a fortune, and lived like a king in some of the most elegant homes on the island. Tharpe made...
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