Jamaica Wine House

The Jamaica Wine House, known locally as "the Jampot", is located in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in the heart of London's financial district.

'To be Sold Cheap, THE Nancy Pleasure-Yacht, Lute stern’d, Burthen about twenty Tons, with very good Accommodations, sails very well, and exceedingly well sound, now lying near the King’s Mills, Rotherhith [sic].

[8] London newspapers throughout the late 1600s and 1700s printed many appeals for information regarding enslaved and bonded runaways that gave the Jamaica coffee house as their point of contact.

[9] Like the advert placed on the 8th August 1728 seeking information about an African woman aged about 25, known as Caelia Edlyne, who chose to leave the house and service of her unnamed ‘master’ in Blackheath.

‘Andrew, of a middle Stature, 23 Years old, 4 of his Teeth of his upper Jaw out before, pitted with the Small-Pox, has short Nails on his Fingers, speaks good English, wears a light-grey Cloath Livery Coat, lined with Red... Run away from his Master Colonel Edmund Edlyne from King’s-Cleare in Hampshire, and ‘tis believed he is In or about London’[14] By 1717 he had decided to remain in England and was, at that time, lodged in Woodford, Essex.