Talk:May Pen

original research?
what's the reason for that tag? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 04:31, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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Origins
thanks for the confirmation that the name was indeed derived from a pen (Jamaican cattle farm). The online sources I found are rather inadequate in this respect jis.gov.jm only states that it "was once part of a property owned by Rev. William May" and "it is said to have begun as merely two inns on the bank of the Rio Minho." But since my edit I've found http://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/tag/william-may/ which mentions his pen, right at the end.

I've traced the original statement that May Pen was established as a plantation settlement by the British between 1660 and 1683 on a crossing point of the Rio Minho river to an edit by User:Journalist (in 2005!). I'd like to confirm, if we can, whether the place was a plantation or a pen in the 17th century, before May's time. It obviously couldn't have been named after him until some time after he arrived on the island in 1719. I've asked Journalist if he can recall where what he wrote came from.

Whatever comes out of this, I think a little rewording may be needed to clarify the point. —S MALL JIM   13:30, 11 November 2020 (UTC)