Lawrence Prince was born in Amsterdam. In 1670, he sailed
from Port Royal, Jamaica to Colombia. He had plans to take the
town of
Mompos which was over 150 miles inland, part of the trip was up
the
Magdalena River. Upon their arrival they found a new fort on an
island
river. The pirates were drove back with cannon fire. Prince was
determined
not to return to Port Royal empty handed. In August he sailed for
Nicaragua and was successful in an almost indentical scheme. He
sailed up
the San Juan River, captured the fort and took canoes up to Lake
Nicaragua
where they pillaged the city of Granada.
The Spanish report of the incident states, "made havoc and
a thousand destructions, sending the head of a priest in a basket
and
saying that he would deal with the rest of the prisoners in the
same way
unless they gave him 70,000 pesos in ransom."
Considering that the city had been sacked by
Henry
Morgan and John Morris
in 1664 they were only
able to raise a small portion of the ransom. prince having his
bluff
called, returned to Port Royal.
Modyford, Governor of Jamaica, sent Prince to join Morgan's
Panamanian expedition. Morgan, seeing Prince to be a man of much
spirit,
made him third in command after himself and Edward
Collier. After the
raid, the English government sent Thomas Lynch to Jamaica to
arrest
Modyford and Morgan for their piratical activities. Lynch, not
having
sufficient force to outright arrest Morgan, decided to try
ingratiating
himself to the pirates. Prince was made Lynch's lieutenant and
under the
governorship of Lynch thrived at Jamaica, having his own
plantation.
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