Compare the settlement of St.

Kitts and Barbados in the 17th century During the 17th Century, the islands of St. Kitts and the Island of Barbados were both made into English settlements. Although the way in which they became chosen to be inhabited is similar, there are many differences. There was more investment in the Barbados settlement than the one St. Kitts in terms of resources, both human and natural. The island of St. Kitts was first settled by the English in 1624 following a failed attempt to locate Guiana. Following the expedition, Thomas Painter suggested to Thomas Warner that it would be of merit to place a settlement within the Caribbean, rather than on the mainland. Taking Painters advice, while in England, Warner sought assistance from a merchant by the name of Merrifield whom purchased a ship and commissioned a sea captain named Jeaffreson to sail with the goods across the Atlantic. Likewise, Barbados was settled following a failed expedition to the mainland, specifically Guiana. However, it was discovered by a Portuguese captain who while on his way to Brazil, took note of the numerous banyan trees there and named the island Los Barbados which means The Bearded. Captain John Powell, sailing under the patronage of Sir William Courteen, a wealthy merchant, got blown off his course and stopped in Barbados for water and food. Sir William decided to send colonists to Barbados and so had the ship William and John prepared and it set sail with eighty people and Powell as its captain. Unlike Barbados, St. Kitts had far less people to start the new settlement. Adding the number of settlers to the people in Warners family (himself, his wife and thirteen year old son), there were seventeen people. At the early stages of settlement there were difficulties in St. Kitts and Barbados, regarding cultivation and proper resource management exclusively. This was apparently due to the lack of familiarity with the climate of the Caribbean (and its natural hazards) and its relationship with cultivation. In Barbados the infrastructure was poor and there was no suitable eating habits befitting the work that was being done on the island to create plantations -More structured settlement, diversity in the cultivation (they grew various crops while St. Kitts grew tobacco only for export to EnglandBarbados -the were slaves at the start of the settlement of Barbados -Warner was given governance of St. Kitts while Barbados was given to The Earl of Carlisle, James Hay who was not competent to manage all the responsibilities on the island ( he ended up in debt and traded the island) - Barbados developed quickly into a little england