34$ HISTORY OF [BOOK. 11. 



to this tedious and ruinous contest; a contest which, 

 while it lasted, seemed to portend nothing less than 

 the ruin of the whole colony. 



Articles of pacification zcit/i the Maroons of Trelaw- 

 ney Toicn^ concluded March the \st, 1738. 



In the Name of God, Amen. Whereas captain 

 Cudjoe, captain Accompong, captain Johnny, cap- 

 tain Cuffee, captain Quaco, and several other ne- 

 groes, their dependents and adherents, have been in 

 a state of war and hostility, for several years past, 

 against our sovereign lord the king, and the inhabi- 

 tants of this island; and whereas peace and friend- 

 ship among mankind, and the preventing the effusion 

 of blood, is agreeable to God, consonant to reason, 

 and desired by every good man ; and whereas his Ma- 

 jesty, King George the Second, King of Great Brir 

 tain, France, and Ireland, of Jamaica Lord, Defender 

 of the Faith, 8cc. has, by his letters patent, dated 

 February the twenty-fourth, one thousand seven hun- 

 dred and thirty-eight, in the twelfth year of his reign, 

 granted full power and authority to John Guthrie and 

 Francis Sadler, esquires, to negotiate and finally con- 

 clude a treaty of peace and friendship with the afore- 

 said captain Cudjoe, and the rest of his captains, adhe- 

 rents., and others his men; they mutually, sincerely, 

 and amicably have agreed to the following articles: 

 First, That all hostilities shall cease on both sides for 



governor's pleasure be signified ; the justices may also respite the execu- 

 tion of any other sentence till his pleasure be known, if they see cause. 

 Where several are capitally convicted for the same offence, only one is tc 

 cuffer death, except for murder or rebellion. 



