Warner, Charles (E)

When the British land sales began in Dominica after 1763, many planters from the 'old colonies' of the Leeward Islands came here to buy land as pioneers on this newly acquired island. Charles Warner of Antigua was one of these. He was a descendant of Sir Thomas Warner, the leader of the first English group to colonize St. Kitts in 1624 and was related to the Carib chief, Thomas 'Carib' Warner, who was killed at Massacre in 1674. Charles Warner purchased several properties around the island in the parishes of St. Andrew, St. David, St. Joseph and St. Paul where he had his main estate called Warner. In the parish of St. David his name also survives in the Charles Warner River, which is a tributary of the Pagua, flowing through part of the Carib Territory.

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