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Doing business in the wartime Caribbean
John Byrn, Irish merchant of Kingston, Jamaica (September–October 1756)
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Irish trading houses – and trading houses with strong Irish connections – were a conspicuous feature of the eighteenth-century West Indian economy. Although most did business in the British, French and Dutch islands of the eastern Caribbean, there was, as well, an Irish presence on French Saint-Domingue and in Great Britain’s largest West Indian city: Kingston, Jamaica. Useful evidence of the activities of such firms survives in bits and pieces, and most often from an external perspective. By a stroke of luck, however, the mailbag of an Irish trading ship, the Europa of Dublin (a vessel recaptured after having been taken by a French privateer early in the Seven Years War) contained letters providing an inside look at the operations of John Byrn of Dublin, an overseas merchant in Kingston. Byrn’s correspondence ties his trade to Dublin’s merchant elite and key figures in London’s Irish merchant community. 

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