Henry Morgan left his plantations and 131 enslaved people to his wife and nephews, and four years later his grave went under the sea

Henry Morgan was born in Wales around 1635. In 1671 he marched across the isthmus and took the city of Panama, which embarrassed the English government. Jamaica's governor Modyford was recalled, and Morgan followed him to England as a prisoner. On 23 January 1674 he was made deputy governor of Jamaica, and he appears to have been knighted then. He died on 25 August 1688 and was buried at Port Royal the next day. He owned three plantations. Most of the estate went to his wife, Mary Elizabeth, for life, then to his nephew Charles, second son of Robert Byndloss. Land in St George went to Byndloss's eldest son, Robert, and land in St Mary to his friend Roger Elletson. Wikipedia says the Jamaican property went to his godsons Charles Byndloss and Henry Archbold on condition they take the surname Morgan^†. The will was proved on 14 September 1688 and named his sister Catherine Lloyd and his cousin Thomas Morgan of Tredegar. The 1689 probate inventory valued the estate at £5,263 in Jamaican currency. It listed 131 enslaved men and women and 33 children, and the enslaved were valued at £1,923. He had no cash. Mary Elizabeth was buried as "The Lady Morgan" in 1696. His lead coffin lay in the Palisadoes cemetery. The earthquake of 7 June 1692 sent the cemetery and most of Port Royal under the water.