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• Cudjoe died at Nanny Town in the Blue Mountains five years after peace was concluded.
• Nanny Town was founded on this land but was destroyed during the First Maroon War in 1734.
• Between 1728 and 1734, they attacked Nanny Town time and time again, but not once was it harmed.
• They eventually became settled at Charles Town, Scotts Hall and the new Nanny Town ( now called Moore Town ).
• By 1720, Nanny and Quao had organized and were leading this settlement of Maroons; it was known as Nanny Town.
• Maroons at Nanny Town and similar communities survived by sending traders to the nearby market towns to exchange food for weapons and cloth.
• The British were unsuccessful in their attacks on Nanny Town, thanks to its strategic location, and her idea to control access to it.
• After much fighting, the British took and destroyed Nanny Town in 1734, but most of the Windward Maroons simply dispersed and formed new settlements.
• The Maroons were also known for raiding plantations for weapons and food, burning the plantation, and leading liberated slaves to join them at Nanny Town.
• In 2008 the Nanny Town Maroons were included within the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity which obliges the safeguarding of the local ecology.
• Nanny Town had a strategic location overlooking Stony River via a 900-foot ( 270 m ) ridge, making a surprise attack by the British practically impossible.
• Another record states that in 1739, a parcel of land named Nanny Town was awarded to " Nanny and her descendents " under a treaty with the colonial government.
• Nanny Town was an excellent location for a stronghold, as it overlooked Stony River via a 900-foot ridge, making a surprise attack by the British virtually impossible.
• He appointed Timothy E . McPherson Jr . from Nanny Town to consolidate relations across the Maroon communities as part of a collective effort to protect the environment and promote climate change awareness.
• Timothy E . McPherson Jr is a descendant of the Nanny Town Maroons ( Windward Maroons ) and he is currently the Minister of Finance for the Accompong Maroons ( Leeward Maroons ).
• The Maroons at Nanny Town also organized look-outs for such an attack, and designated certain warriors to be summoned by the sound of a horn called an " abeng ."
• The Maroons were to remain in their five main towns ( Accompong, Trelawny Town, Moore Town, Scott's Pass, Nanny Town ), living under their own rulers and a British supervisor.
• It was given the name Nanny Town, and consisted of 500 acres ( 2.4 km?) of land granted by the government to the refugee slaves under a 1739 treaty ending the First Maroon Wars.
• By about 1720, a stronger Windward community had developed around the culturally Africanised group of three villages known as Nanny Town, under the spiritual leadership of Queen Nanny, an Ashanti woman, sometimes in allegiance and sometimes in competition with other Windward groups.
• It commemorates the life of the Juan de Bolas, a pre-Maroon band leader during the English and Spanish quest for supremacy in Jamaica during the mid-17th century . " Nanny Town " ( 1983 ) was Reid s last published novel and portrays Jamaica s original Queen Mother who led the Jamaican Maroons to independence from the English.