Kingston's great fires
background
1780/2
1815 Port Royal
1843
1862
1875
1882
1907
1780/2
* The
Eagle
was a ship recently arrived at Bristol from Jamaica
and then:
'1782. Kingston (Jamaica) had 80 houses burned.
Loss, £500,000.'
source: 1911, 11th Edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica