Governor Archibald Hamilton

[Davis]

This governor became particularly famous in historiography of piracy for his (interested) help to Henry Jennings and more in general to the "Flying Gang". When that scandal exploded, mostly thanks to the spanish gripes to the English crown, Hamilton was arrested and forcibly conducted to London, where, in very few time, he re-gained his status of Lord and even differents assignments from the crown.

Now i'm very confused because i've found the copy of a letter of "Hamilton governor of Antigue" (without the name "Arcibald") dated 1720, but i can't find anywhere a confirm that he became again governor in the westerns colonies. His biography, that is possible to find in a very short form on differents websites, never mention anything about that..and even the lists of governors of Antigue say that Edward Byam was the Governor of Antigua in that year, and this would also eliminate the possibility of a homonym.

Could you please enlight me more about this person?

Thank you very much

Edited April 1, 2014 by Davis