In 1728 by some accounts, or 1730 in others, Nicholas Lawes, a former governor of Jamaica, brought the first coffee plants to Kingston and planted them in St. Andrews Parish. Famous for trying pirates, including “Calico Jack” Rackham, Mary Reade and Anne Bonny, he apparently had decided to settle into civilian life pioneering coffee cultivation at his Temple Hill estate. Little more about Governor Lawes can be found regarding his cultivation of coffee, but the story of the progenitor of those first few plants is known, at least mostly known. The first trees were obtained from the French at Martinique. All the coffee trees in Martinique (and eventually the rest of the Caribbean) descended from a single sapling carried over from France. And courts and cafés of France is where this story begins.