Berry Island, situated just northeast of Andros Island, was first settled in 1836 by free Africans at Great Harbor Cay, under Governor William MacBean George Colebrooke (1787-1870). The mulatto governor who welcomed Dickie Galt may have been a Black Seminole, one of a bi-racial group of Seminole Indians and free American blacks who escaped from Florida in 1821 and settled on Andros Island http://www.bahamasgateway.com/berry_island_bahamas.htm ; http://www.gnb.ca/lg/gov-e.asp; Rosalyn Howard, “The ‘Wild Indians’ of Andros Island: Black Seminole Legacy in the Bahamas’,” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37 No. 2, (November 2006) 275-298; Toni Carrier, “Black Seminoles, Maroons and Freedom Seekers in Florida, Part 3: The Destruction of Angola,” The USF Africana Heritage Project, http://www.africanaheritage.com/Black_Seminoles_Angola.asp .
