# Luke Stokes

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'''Luke Stokes''' (or Stoakes) was an English colonialist who was twice governor of [Nevis](/source/Nevis) before relocating with his family and 1,600 other settlers to the [Port Morant](/source/Port_Morant) area of [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica) following the [English conquest of Jamaica](/source/Invasion_of_Jamaica).<ref name="JFS">{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Patricia |title=Jamaican History 1492-1727 |url=http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/history1.htm |website=www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com |publisher=Patricia Jackson |accessdate=11 June 2019}}</ref>

Stokes was Governor of Nevis following the death of Thomas Littleton in 1634. However he was replaced in 1635 by Thomas Sparrow.<ref name="Harlow">{{cite book |last1=Harlow |first1=V. T. |title=Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 1623-1667 |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon |isbn=9781317164104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAkkDwAAQBAJ&q=Luke+Stoakes&pg=PT86 |language=en}}</ref> He was governor once again in 1649.<ref name="Cahoon">{{cite web |last1=Cahoon |first1=Ben |title=Saint Kitts and Nevis |url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis.html |website=www.worldstatesmen.org |accessdate=11 June 2019}}</ref> He remained in this position until he led the group of settlers to Port Morant in 1656. This constituted the first major settlement by English colonialists.<ref name="Stokes Hall Great House">{{cite web |last1=Mosley |first1=Dr Raul A. |title=Stokes Hall Great House |url=https://thelastgreatgreathouseblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/stokes-hall-great-house/ |website=A Tour of Jamaica's Great Houses, Plantations, & Pens |accessdate=11 June 2019 |language=en |date=30 March 2015}}</ref>

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