Nicholas Lawes

Sir Nicholas Lawes ( – 18 June 1731) was a British judge and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Jamaica from 1718 to 1722. Early life Nicholas Lawes was born to Nicholas and Amy Lawes. He was a British knight. Governor of Jamaica He was Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1698 to 1703 and Governor from 1718 to 1722. In his capacity as Governor during the Golden Age of Piracy he hunted down or tried many pirates, among them "Calico Jack" Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Robert Deal, Captain Thompson, Nicholas Brown, and Charles Vane. He signed an arrangement with Jeremy, king of the Miskito, to bring some of his followers over to Jamaica to hunt down runaway slaves and Jamaican Maroons in 1720.