Crawford's Town

Crawford's Town was one of the two main towns belonging to the Windward Maroons, who fought a guerrilla war of resistance against the British colonial forces of Jamaica during the First Maroon War of the 1730s. Crawford's Town was in the Spanish River area of the parish of St George, now the western half of Portland Parish, and was named after Edward Crawford, the Maroon leader of that town. Some historians believe that Crawford was a white officer. But Maroon historians have proved that Crawford was a Maroon. rdf:langString