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John Tharp:
An extremely wealthy planter, John Tharpe [sic] constructed a private wharf in Falmouth Harbour to manage sugar exports and material and slave imports for his plantation empire at Good Hope, a few miles south of Falmouth on the Martha Brae River. Like many wealthy sugar planters in the late eighteenth century, Tharp tried to manage his properties while living in England; unlike most, Tharp returned to Jamaica permanently in the 1790s to manage his properties in person. After his return, Tharp was active in local and parish politics and was a significant benefactor to St. Peter's Anglican Church. |