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Demerara in South America was one of the original British colonies that were joined into the colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown. Demerara is now one of three counties of Guyana. The other two counties are Berbice and Essequibo. Before the colony became British, it was a Dutch colony.
   The name "Demerara" comes from a variant of the Arawak word "Immenary" or "Dumaruni" which means "river of the letter wood".
   On 13 August 1814 the British combined the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo into the colony of Demerara-Essequibo. On 20 November 1815 the colony was formally ceded to Britain by the Netherlands.
   On 21 July 1831 Demerara-Essequibo united with Berbice as British Guiana.
   Large slave rebellion broke out in West Demerara in 1795 and on the East Coast of Demerara in 1823 Demerara sugar is so named because originally it came from the colony of Demerara.

Notable Demererans

Sir James Douglas, Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1851-64) and the Colony of British Columbia (1858–64).
Rev. Joseph Ketley, Congregational missionary, mid 19th century.

Commanders of Demerara

Jonathan Samuel Storm van 's Gravesende (d. 1761) (1752–1761)

Laurens Lodewijk van Bercheijk (d. 1765) (1761–1765)

Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel (1765–1770)

Paulus van Schuylenburgh (1772–1781)

Antony Beaujon (22 April 1796 – 27 March 1802)

Governors of Demerara

Robert Kingston (27 February 1781 – 1782)

Louis Antoine Dazemard de Lusignan (1782)

Armand Guy Simon de Coëtnempren, comte de Kersaint (b. 1742 – d. 1793) (1782)

Georges Manganon de la Perrière (1783–1784)

Directors-general

Joseph Bourda (acting) (6 March 1784 – February 1785)

Jan L'Éspinasse (February 1785 – 18 August 1789)

Albertus Backer (18 August 1789 – 31 March 1793)

Willem August van Sirtema, baron van Grovestins (31 March 1793 – May 1795)

Antony Beaujon (b. 17... – d. 1805) (1795 – 22 April 1796)

Antony Meertens (27 March 1802 – September 1803)

Lieutenant governors

Robert Nicholson (September 1803 – 18 August 1804)

Antony Beaujon (18 August 1804 – 19 October 1805)

James Montgomery (acting) (19 October 1805 – 8 May 1806)

Henry William Bentinck (8 May 1806 – February 1812)

Hugh Lyle Carmichael (b. 1764 – d. 1813) (February 1812 – 11 May 1813)

E. Codd (acting) (11 May 1813 – 23 May 1813)

John Murray (23 May 1813 – 26 April 1824)

Sir Benjamin d'Urban (26 April 1824 – 21 July 1831)

Leaders of Slave Rebellions

1823: Jack Gladstone of Plantation SuccessFurther Information

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