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William Beeston, Governor of Jamaica (1636 - 1702)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1955?docPos=4 Relationships: Eliot (-) was a source of information for William Beeston
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A small Fragment of Capt. Eliot's Canoe, wherein he made his Escape from Petty Guaves in the West-Indies, and gave the Governour of Jamaica Notice that the French were coming to surprize that Island, by which Means it was saved: He sailed sixty Leagues without Compass in three Days, and had no Sustenance for himself and two Blacks but a little raw Flesh; for which signal Service K. William gave him the Command of a Man of War. The Canoe hangs up in Greenwich Hospital. A Truncheon of Sir Francis Drake's Ship, wherewith he surrounded the World; Queen Elizabeth order'd it to be drawn up in a little Creek near Deptford, whence this was sent to my Father.