Hector Mitchell was an alderman,"West Indian Affairs". Letter from "Brittanicus", The Examiner, 19 September 1825 (No. 920), pp. 593-594. magistrate in KingstonDeportation of Messrs. Lecesne and Escoffery From Jamaica. Hansard, 16 June 1825, Vol. 13, cc1173-205. and elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.
With the mayor of Kingston Joseph Barnes, Mitchell persecuted two Jamaican free men of colour and had them deported from the island for an imaginary conspiracy against the government. The case was discussed in the British House of Commons. Records relating to Mitchell's activities in Jamaica are held by the British National Archives.Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Removal of liberated Africans from Cuba.... National Archives. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
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