Jeronimo Clifford

[4] Clifford and his son returned to Suriname a year later, when the interim-governor Pieter Versterre (who seems to have been involved in the affair) did not give permission to the London moneylender to pay them.

[5] In 1683 Jeronimy married the English woman Dorothea Matson, who had inherited Courcabo on the death of her husband Abraham Schoors.

Courcabo was the largest sugar-plantation in Suriname (1500 acres), with a mill, a boiling, a dwelling and an overseer's house, a cook room, a cattlehouse, 22 huts for 117 slaves.

Between 1696 and 1700 Clifford remained in Amsterdam, demanding 224,718 guilders (more than £23.000) from the Society of Suriname in multiple compensation proceedings.

He signed a protest to William III of England and referred to the agreements between Britain and the Dutch Republic set up by the Peace of Breda in 1667 and by the Treaty of Westminster in 1674.

In 1700 he wanted to be (or he was) given permission to transport goods and slaves out of Suriname, but demanded a considerably higher sum (342,693 guilders) as damages.

The raadpensionaris Anthonie Heinsius gave Clifford little chance of success and judged that the case should not be tried in England, but could be tried in the Netherlands.