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Port Morant
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<p>Port Morant is a town in <a href="/facts/Saint_Thomas_Parish,_Jamaica/gwmcmfJN">Saint Thomas Parish</a>, southeastern <a href="/facts/Jamaica/jeDulmwE">Jamaica</a>. It was, in the early years of European settlement, one of the island's chief ports, with export of <a href="/facts/Banana/D6r2qPPq">bananas</a> and production of <a href="/facts/Rum/a146KQB5">rum</a> being major industries. Following the <a href="/facts/Invasion_of_Jamaica/6dVxH5UT">English conquest of Jamaica</a> in 1655, General <a href="/facts/Luke_Stokes/lMsG12gQ">Luke Stokes</a> arrived from <a href="/facts/Nevis/rnmqb4AE">Nevis</a> with 1,600 people who settled near Port Morant in 1656. </p> <p><a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Port_Morant¶ms=17_54_N_76_19_W_region:JM_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki">17°54′N 76°19′W / 17.900°N 76.317°W / 17.900; -76.317</a> </p>