English settlers under Sir Thomas Warner land on the Caribbean island of St Kitts, and establish the colony of St Christopher's as the first English settlement in the West Indies.
Please log in to
consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing
institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on
campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we
offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If
you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal
subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.
30 words
Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "First English Settlement in the West Indies". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=404, accessed 23 November 2024.]