Ye olde Port royle Blue plaque trail
the Bermuda Historical society

No: 3 Crows nest View
Port Royal

Former home of:

James Browne

James Browne (died 1677) was a Scottish pirate and privateer active in the Caribbean. He is best known for his hasty execution and the effects it had on colonial Jamaican government. Early in 1677 he captured the Dutch West Indies Company slaving ship Golden Sun off Cartagena, killing several of its officers and crew.That May he reappeared on Jamaica trying to sell slaves to local plantations. Governor Vaughn dispatched a frigate to collect most of the slaves from the planters who’d purchased them illicitly. He then wrote to the Governor of Dutch Curacao to warn him of Browne’s piracy.