The Legislative Assembly building is at the left. The Heroes Square in the centre of George Town, which commemorates Cayman Islands' war dead. The islands continued to be governed as part of the Colony of Jamaica until 1962, when they became a separate Crown colony while Jamaica became an independent Commonwealth realm. On 22 June 1863, the Cayman Islands became officially declared and administered as a dependency of the Crown Colony of Jamaica. At the time of abolition, there were over 950 people of African ancestry enslaved by 116 white families of English ancestry. Slavery was abolished in the Cayman Islands in 1833. The results of the first census taken in the islands in 1802 showed the population on Grand Cayman to be 933, with 545 of those inhabitants being enslaved.
Many were brought to the islands from Africa this is evident today with the majority of native Caymanians being of African and/or English descent. With settlement, after the first royal land grant by the Governor of Jamaica in 1734, came the perceived need for slaves. Following several unsuccessful attempts at settlement in what had by now become a haven for pirates, a permanent English-speaking population in the islands dates from the 1730s. That same year saw an attack on a turtle fishing settlement on Little Cayman by the Spanish under Manuel Ribeiro Pardal. Įngland took formal control of the Cayman Islands, along with Jamaica, as a result of the Treaty of Madrid of 1670. He was the grandson of the original settler named Bodden who was probably one of Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the taking of Jamaica in 1655. The first recorded permanent inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, Isaac Bodden, was born on Grand Cayman around 1661. Cayman Islands National Museum, George Town, Grand Cayman
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