 Former slaves organised under the leadership of Juan de Serras allied with the Spanish guerrillas on the western end of the Cockpit Country, while those under Juan de Bolas established themselves in modern-day Clarendon Parish and served as a "black militia" for the English.The third chose to join those who had previously escaped from the Spanish to live and intermarry with the Arawak people.Each group of Maroons established distinct independent communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica.