Major Jarrett

Major John Jarrett (d. 1839) was a Jamaican Maroon leader of the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) in Jamaica. He was most likely named after a neighbouring planter with a similar surname.[1]

Not to be confused with Major Garrett.

References
  1. Michael Siva, After the Treaties: A Social, Economic and Demographic History of Maroon Society in Jamaica, 1739-1842, PhD Dissertation, African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica library (Southampton: Southampton University, 2018), pp. 132, 273.
  2. Siva, After the Treaties, p. 216. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/423482/1/LIBRARY_COPY_After_The_Treaties_Final.pdf
  3. Siva, After the Treaties, pp. 22-30.
  4. E. Kofi Agorsah, ‘Archaeology of Maroon Settlements in Jamaica’, Maroon Heritage: Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives, ed. by E. Kofi Agorsah (Kingston: University of the West Indies Canoe Press, 1994), pp. 180-1.
  5. Carey 1997, p. 315-355.
  6. Mavis Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica (Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1988), pp. 209-249.
  7. Campbell, Maroons of Jamaica, pp. 209-249.
  8. Siva, After the Treaties, pp. 136-154.
  9. R.C. Dallas, The History of the Maroons, Vol. 2 (1803), p. 256.
  10. Mavis Campbell, Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1993), pp. 7, 107.
  11. Mavis Campbell, Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1993), pp. 5-7.
  12. Simon Schama, Rough Crossings (London: 2005), pp. 380-3.
  13. Mavis Campbell, Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1993), p. 27.
  14. Mavis Campbell, Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1993), pp. 15, 22-3, 107.
  15. James Walker, The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783-1870 (London: Longman, 1976), pp. 240-3.
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