Where is henry morgan buried

Captain Morgan – famous today as the face of a brand of spiced rum.

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But who was he? Pirate? Privateer? Politician?

He was born in 1635 in Llanrhymny, then a village between Cardiff and Newport, in South Wales, to a prosperous farming family.

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It is believed he spent his childhood in Wales but how he came from Wales to the West Indies is uncertain.

In one version he was ‘barbadosed’ or kidnapped and sent to work as an indentured servant in Barbados. This version was put forward by Alexandre Exquemelin, Morgan’s surgeon in Panama, in his writings which were translated into English, …the Unparallel’d Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English (sic) Jamaican hero…However when Morgan heard of these publications, he sued and Exquemelin was forced to retract this version.

(This book is also responsible for Morgan’s notorious reputation, as Exquemelin alleges horrific atrocities on Spanish civilians by the privateers.)

The most accepted version is that in 1654 Henry joi