_General Stokes._--Can any of your readers give me any information
respecting the parentage of General Stokes? In the historical table of
remarkable events in the _Jamaica Almanack_ for 1847 it says: "General
Stokes, with 1600 men from Nevis, arrived and settled near Port Morant,
anno Domini 1655." And in Bryan Edwards' work on _Jamaica and the West
Indies_, mention is made of General Stokes in the following words:
"In the month of December, 1655, General Stokes, with 1600 men from
Nevis, arrived in Jamaica, and settled near Port Morant. The family of
the Morants of Vere (in Jamaica) are the lineal descendants of General
Stokes, who took the name of Morant from the port at which he landed.
General Stokes was governor of Nevis; and on his arrival in Jamaica was
appointed one of the high commissioners for the Island."