Jacob Selwood - At Kingdoms Edge: The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject

I could not have completed this book without the help and support of many people. My greatest academic debt lies with those scholars whose generosity helped me to make the leap from studying early modern London to studying colonial Suriname. Alison Games provided thoughtful and detailed feedback on the original manuscript and shared numerous sources. I am grateful to her for her constructive criticism, as I am to the manuscripts other, anonymous reader during the peer review process. Natalie Zemon Davis recommended sources during the early stages of this project and offered insight into maps of Suriname later on. Susan Amussen provided support and gave her thoughts on a conference panel. I am grateful to Suze Zijlstra, Karwan Fatah-Black, and Aviva Ben-Ur for taking the time to meet with me while I was in the Netherlands and for sharing ideas and source recommendations. Eliane Glaser invited me to write a chapter in which I first started thinking about Suriname. Hannah Weiss Muller reviewed an article that became part of this book, and in doing so helped to improve it and recommended essential texts. Dana Rabin helped me to think about the relationship between subjecthood and slavery, while David Worthington shared his insights about Surinames Scottish connections. Numerous other scholars responded to my various queries about sources, including Laura Leibman, Jonathan Israel, and Robert Batchelor. I also thank the staff of the British and Dutch national archives and the British Library for their in-person assistance, the staff of the Zeeland archives and Surinamese national archives for answering queries from afar, and Karina Salih for searching the grounds of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, for Jeronimy Cliffords grave (in vain, alas). I am especially thankful to Wim Klooster for helping this book find a home and to Michael McGandy for making it feel welcome once it got there. Thank you, as well, to Clare Jones, Susan P. Specter, Mary Ribesky, and Nicole Balent for helping the book reach its final form.

My friends and colleagues in the Department of History at Georgia State University helped both directly, with their ideas and support, and indirectly, by providing a stimulating environment in which to work. Special thanks go to Jeffrey Young for designing the map of Guianas rivers and Nick Wilding for reading part of the manuscript, as well as Marni Davis, David Sehat, Harcourt Fuller, Jared Poley, and Michelle Brattain. Thanks go as well to Jessica Berry (of the Department of Philosophy) for reading an early grant application and to Joanna Jury for her work as my research assistant (Im delighted that youre now my colleague!). I am also grateful to Paula Sorrell for helping to keep the department running smoothly. My many students at Georgia State also deserve my appreciation for persistently nudging me toward greater clarity. A Research Initiation Grant from Georgia State University funded the archival trip in which I discovered Jeronimy Clifford.

Learning to read Dutch was as daunting as it was rewarding. Lauren Ristvet, my friend and former colleague, initially encouraged me to take the leap. A scholar of the ancient world who is proficient in multiple dead languages, she pointed out that it was well within my power to learn a single living one. My colleague Ghulam Nadri provided moral support and checked some of my early attempts at translation. University College, Londons distance-learning course in early modern Dutch got me fully up to speed. Thank you to An Castangia for teaching it so well.

Cynthia Herrup deserves a special mention for training me as a historian in the first place and providing ongoing encouragement, advice, and friendship since. She and Judith Bennett also gave me a place to stay in London, as did Cathy and Adrian Stoddart. I am very lucky to have too many friends to name here, without whom I could not have completed this book with my sanity intact (to the extent it still is), especially during a pandemic. However, Wayne and Rhonda Lee, Brett Whalen, Rick Sawyer, Emily Burrill, Lauren Crain, Heather Devlin, Courtney Baker, Randy Trammell, and Lindy Settevendemie all deserve special mention. Thanks go to my family, Roni Powell, Anna Selwood, Piero Jamieson, Hector Jamieson, and Louis Jamieson, for their love and support. Most of all, I thank Ann Claycombe; I am the luckiest person in the world to be able to share my life with you, and my love for you cannot be put into words. Finally, I dedicate this book to the memory of my stepfather, Rod Powell, who was there almost from the very beginning.

British Library, London (cited as BL)

• Additional MSS, 61644 B-C: Papers submitted to Sunderland on 18 July 1707 by Jeronimy Clifford, planter of Surinam, concerning his claims against the Governor and Council of Surinam and the West India Company of the United Provinces.
• Additional MSS, 30218: Opinions of the law-officers of the Crown and others, chiefly upon matters connected with the revenue, 16731707.
• Egerton MSS, 2395: Miscellaneous official papers relating to the English settlements in America and the West Indies.
• Sloane MSS, 3662.

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC

• Legal case regarding inheritance of David Salters heirs ca. 16501660s?, call. no. X.d.564.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Netherlands (cited as NA Den Haag)

• 1.01.02: Archief van de Staten-Generaal, (1431) 15761796: 2581733, Eerste Minuten; 17343094, Geresumeerde Minuten.
• 1.05.03: Archief van de Sociteit van Suriname, (1650) 16821795 (1796): 212403, Ingekomen brieven en papieren van de Gouverneur en andere overheidspersonen, 16831794.
• 3.01.04.01: Staten van Holland, 15721795: 1173, 175280, Gedrukte resoluties van de Staten van Holland over de jaren 15241795.

National Archives, United Kingdom (cited as NA UK)

• CO 1/15: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, 1661.
• CO 1/21: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, 1667.
• CO 1/27: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, JulyDecember 1671.
• CO 1/35: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, AugustDecember 1675.
• CO 1/47: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, JuneDecember 1681.
• CO 137/10: Board of Trade, Original Correspondence, 17131715.
• CO 278/1: Secretary of State, Original Correspondence, 17281800.
• CO 278/2: Colonial Office and Predecessors, Surinam Original Correspondence, Entry Book of Copies of Agreements, etc., 16671674.
• CO 278/3: Colonial Office and Predecessors, Surinam Original Correspondence, Entry Book of Commissions, etc., 16681677.
• CO 323/2: Board of Trade: Original Correspondence, 16961698.
• CO 388/75: Board of Trade: Accounts and Establishments, 16961705.
• CO 388/76: Board of Trade: Accounts and Establishments, 17051715.
• CO 389/36: Board of Trade: Petitions, Orders in Council, Accounts, 16961710.
• CO 389/37: Board of Trade: Petitions, Orders in Council, Accounts, 17111750.
• CO 391/14: Board of Trade: Minutes, 17011702.
• PC 1/7/33: Records of the Privy Council: Answer Given by the Director of the Surinam Society to the States General of the United Provinces Concerning the Claim of Andrew and Jeronimy Clifford to one of the Principal Plantations in Surinam, 7 October 1762.
• PC 2/65: Privy Council Registers, Charles II, October 1675April 1677.
• PROB 11: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wills and Letters of Administration.
• SP 32/15: Secretaries of State: State Papers, Domestic, William and Mary, A Series of Newsletters in Manuscript Addressed to Sir Joseph Williamson as Ambassador in Holland by Vernon, and by Ellis and Ward, Under Secretaries, 16981699.