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Hatchment in St James's Church, Avebury, Wiltshire. For the funeral of Lt. General Sir Adam Williamson (1733-1798), KB, of Avebury Manor, appointed Governor of Jamaica 1790. (Source: https://www.kennet8.org.uk/st-james-avebury/). Shield circumscribed by the motto TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO, Order Of Bath, with regalia below. From http://aveburymanor.blogspot.com/2012/08/sir-adam-williamson-1733-1798.html, quoting "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by David P. Geggus":

He was the son of Lieutenant-General George Williamson (1707?–1781) (see biog[1]), who commanded the Royal Artillery during operations in North America from 1758 to 1760. He married Ann Jones, at Woolwich on 10th August 1771; she was the daughter of Thomas Jones of East Wickham Kent. In July 1789, Ann had inherited Avebury Manor from her uncle - Arthur Jones. Sir Adam however, had little time to enjoy his peaceful new country residence, for in late 1790, when war with Spain threatened, he was sent as lieutenant-governor and garrison commander to Jamaica, Britain's most important colony. He was later to replace the governor - Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham following his death in November 1791. His clemency proved popular with the planters and he won praise for his ‘mildness’ and for maintaining calm after the outbreak of a major slave uprising in nearby St Domingue. Several of its white colonists sought refuge in Jamaica and requested that Britain take over the French colony. Williamson cultivated these contacts, for St Domingue was a source of enormous wealth. Following the outbreak of war in 1793 he received permission to send troops to those areas that would accept a British protectorate. In September there began a tenuous five-year military occupation. Slave owners welcomed the British forces into much of western and southern St Domingue, and plantation production revived. Ultimately, however, their alliance could make little headway against the burgeoning insurrection among the enslaved and free coloured populations. Troops sent from Europe were vastly outnumbered and died quickly from disease. Yet, in the optimism following the capture of Port-au-Prince on 4 June 1794, Williamson was made a knight of the Bath on 18 November and governor of St Domingue, where he arrived on 26 May 1795.

See Monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies from the earliest date

By James Henry Lawrence-Archer, p.70[2], for coat of arms and monument to wife in Jamaica. Blazons only, no families given.
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