Sir Thomas Warner
Sir Thomas Warner was born around the year of 1580, in Parham, Suffolk, England, to William Warner and Margaret Jermegan. He began military training at an early age, then later became a captain in King James I’s bodyguards, under the command of Roger North. In 1623, he settled on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, and made it the first colony of Britain. He allowed french colonists to settle on St. Kitts, but as the population grew, the Carib natives of the island were becoming more and more suspicious of them.
In 1626, the Caribs put together plans to attack the European settlers on the next full moon. However, their plans were exposed by an Igneri woman named Barbe who was living as a slave among. After hearing of their plans, the French and British settlers attacked the Kalinago people and killed about 100 of them in their beds that night.
Warner was appointed Parlimentary Governor of the Caribee Islands in the year 1643. After his first wife had died, he married a Kalinago woman and had many Children with her. He died on March 10, 1649, and was buried in the middle of St. Kitts
Sir Thomas Warner was said to have married four times. His first wife was Sarah Snelling, who gave him his first son, Edward. With his second wife Rebecca Warner, he had two children; Mary and Phillip Warner. His third wife Anne, did not conceive any children, and his fourth wife was the Carib woman who gave birth to Thomas ‘Indian’ Warner.