THE MAKOONS. 



'IN the name of God, amen! Whereas Captain Cudjoe, 

 Captain Acompong, Captain Johnny, Captain CufFee, Cap- 

 tain Quaco, and several other negroes, their dependents and 

 adherents, have been in a state of war and hostility for several 

 years past against our sovereign lord the king ; and whereas 

 peace and friendship -among mankind, and the preventing the 

 effusion of human blood, is agreeable to God, consonant to 

 reason, and desired by every good man,' and whereas and 

 whereas, through many specifications, we come to the conclu- 

 sion that, * first, all hostilities shall cease on both sides for 

 ever ; secondly, that the said Captain Cud joe, the rest of his 

 captains, adherents, and men, shall be for ever after in a per- 

 fect state of freedom and liberty ; excepting those who have 

 been taken by them, or fled to them within two years last 

 past.' 



Such is the literal beginning of articles of pacification 

 with the Maroons of Trelawney Town, and concluded March 

 1st, 1738, by John Guthrie and Francis Sadler, Esquires, on 

 behalf of his late most gracious Majesty King George the 

 Second. From the tenor of this document it seems, then, 

 that the Maroons were a people of some importance ; as, in- 

 deed, the result of many a sanguinary mountain fight in 

 Jamaica proved them to be. That the Maroons were still in 

 force at the time of the late Jamaica outbreak, the fact of 

 their cooperation proved. They still hold their own, may 

 even, indeed, be said to flourish, in the mountain region of 



