John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton was a Scottish peer, landowner and politician.
The 2nd Lord Belhaven.
Darien scheme
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The Darien scheme or the Darien venture was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia or Britain-in-Pa
John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton
…privy council. He was a director of and invested heavily in the Company of Scotland, which was formed in 1695 and was responsible for the ill-fated Darien scheme to set up a Scots colony on the Darien peninsula in Panama. He was also a proponent of agricultural improvement publishing a handbook, The Countryman's…
This chest was used to store money and documents associated with the Company of Scotland, a trading company set up in 1695 with the power to establish colonies.
The Bay of Caledonia, west of the Gulf of Darién. New Edinburgh is on the isthmus on the right.