 There were also periodic skirmishes between the British and the mountain communities, culminating in the First Maroon War of the 1730s and the Second Maroon War of the 1795

The first inhabitants of Jamaica probably came from islands to the east in two waves of migration.About 600 CE the culture known as the “Redware people” arrived; little is known of them, however, beyond the red pottery they left.Alligator Pond in Manchester Parish and Little River in St. Ann Parish are among the earliest known sites of this Ostionoid person, who lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish.