Anthony Rowse

Anthony Rowse
Governor of Surinam
In office
1650–1654
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byWilliam Byam

Anthony Rowse was the first Colonial Governor of Suriname during English suzerainty. Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet mentions his starting an English settlement on the Suriname River.[1] In 1650 reportedly landed in Suriname with around 300 people. That said as the effort had been initiated by Baron Francis Willoughby it would later be known as Willoughby-Land.[2] Once there Rowse is said to have negotiated with two "Carib kings or princes."[3]

References

  1. ^ Michiel van Groesen (9 June 2014). The Legacy of Dutch Brazil. Cambridge University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-107-06117-0.
  2. ^ Jonathan D. Hill (1 June 1996). History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992. University of Iowa Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-58729-110-4.
  3. ^ Ellen-Rose Kambel (1 January 1999). The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname. IWGIA. p. 23. ISBN 978-87-90730-17-8.
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