33-532: Carey Park may refer to: Carey Park, Trelawny Parish , Jamaica Carey Park, Cornwall , United Kingdom Carey Park (Atlanta) , a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, United States Carey Park, Western Australia , a suburb of the city of Bunbury Carey Park, part of Northwich Woodlands [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
66-575: A schooner, and set sail for Jamaica. They were joined by two other Sierra Leone Maroons, Mary Ricketts and her daughter Jane Bryan. In 1841, this group found their way to Trelawny Town, now called Maroon Town, but which they still insisted on calling Cudjoe's Town. In 1841, some of the maroons returned to Jamaica to work for Jamaican sugar planters, who desperately needed workers following the abolition of slavery. Many freedmen in Jamaica wanted to cultivate their own plots rather than work on plantations, leaving
99-814: A vacuum for workers, and the Jamaican planters initially turned to Sierra Leone. In 1841, the first ship to arrive in Sierra Leone looking for African workers was the Hector , and several Maroons were so desperate to leave Sierra Leone that they did not wait for the ship to dock, but rowed out to meet it in their canoes. In all, 64 Maroons left Sierra Leone for Jamaica on the Hector alone. Most Sierra Leone Maroons lived in Freetown, and between 1837 and 1844, Freetown's Maroon population shrank from 650 to 454, suggesting that about 200 made their way back to Jamaica. As many as one-third of
132-455: Is a parish in the county of Cornwall in northwest Jamaica . Its capital is Falmouth . It is bordered by the parishes of Saint Ann in the east, Saint James in the west, and Saint Elizabeth and Manchester in the south. Trelawny is known for producing several Olympic sprinters. In 1770, the wealthy planters in St James and St Ann succeeded in having sections of those parishes become
165-534: Is part of the Cockpit Country , and is uninhabitable. It is therefore a natural reserve for flora and fauna ; most of Jamaica's 27 endemic bird species can be found there, along with yellow snakes , and the giant swallowtail butterfly , the largest butterfly in the western hemisphere . Most of the parish has the typical limestone features of sinkholes , caves , and underground passages. There are about 48 caves, most with phosphate gatherings. These include
198-530: Is the birthplace of several track and field athletes: Usain Bolt , Veronica Campbell-Brown , Marvin Anderson , Ricardo Chambers , Omar Brown , Michael Frater , Lerone Clarke , Dane Hyatt , Rosemarie Whyte , Michael Greene , Inez Turner , Debbie-Ann Parris , Sanya Richards , Ben Johnson and Warren Weir . The supercentenarian Violet Brown (1900–2017), who was at a time the oldest verified living person in
231-790: The Second Maroon War in 1796, first to Nova Scotia . Four years later in 1800, they were transported to Sierra Leone . The Sierra Leone Company had established the settlement of Freetown and the Colony of Sierra Leone in 1792 for the resettlement of the African Americans who arrived via Nova Scotia after they had been evacuated as freedmen from the United States after the American Revolutionary War . Some Jamaican Maroons eventually returned to Jamaica, but most became part of
264-612: The Green Bay Packers and Maurice Haughton, Atari Bigby . 18°23′N 77°38′W / 18.383°N 77.633°W / 18.383; -77.633 Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone The Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone were a group of just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Cudjoe's Town , the largest of the five Jamaican maroon towns who were deported by the British authorities in Jamaica following
297-696: The Maroons in Sierra Leone returned to Jamaica in the 1840s. The Jamaican Maroons who remained in Sierra Leone gradually merged with the developing Sierra Leone Creole people . This was made up of immigrants and the descendants of various groups of freed slaves who arrived in Freetown between 1792 and about 1855. After abolishing the Atlantic slave trade, the British Navy posted ships off Africa to intercept slavers, and would deposit liberated slaves at Freetown. Some modern Creoles (or "Krio") still proudly claim descent from
330-622: The Maroons were disliked by the other ethnic groups in the colony. With the passing years, more Maroons requested a return to Jamaica. After the Second Maroon War, the Jamaican Assembly had passed a law making it a felony punishable by death for any Trelawny Maroon to return to Jamaica. Two petitions sent by the Maroons in Sierra Leone to the British Crown requesting the right to return were rejected. However, in 1831, another petition
363-466: The Trelawny Maroons. In 1809, Sierra Leone Governor Thomas Perronet Thompson officially nominated Montague James as the head of the maroons in Sierra Leone. Montague James died three years later. Once they became settled, and they started to flourish, their numbers grew to the point that they numbered in the mid-600s in 1826. They gained good jobs in the civil service and the military. However,
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#1733085546684396-721: The Windsor Cave and Carambi Cave (known for its beauty and phosphate deposits). There are several other caves which have Taino carvings on the walls. There are also several underground conduits , with the longest running for 24 kilometres (15 mi). The main rivers are the Martha Brae, Rio Bueno, Cane and Quashie Rivers. Trelawny's sources of employment are based on agriculture , manufacturing , and tourism . Rum and sugar are Trelawny's principal products. Other crops include bananas , yams , strawberries , vegetables , pimento , coffee , ginger , papaya and coconut . Though
429-426: The colony demanded vengeance, and attacked Maroons in Freetown, forcing a number of them to flee for safety in the interior. After this incident, large numbers of Maroons no longer felt safe in Sierra Leone. In 1839, the first Maroons made their way from Sierra Leone to Jamaica. Mary Brown and her family, which included her daughter Sarah McGale and a Spanish son-in-law, sold off their property in Sierra Leone, bought
462-551: The course of his administration, Ochterlony took half a dozen maroon women as mistresses. Quarrell tried in vain to break up the maroons as a community. On 26 June 1796, the ships Dover , Mary , and Anne sailed from Port Royal , to Halifax. One arrived in Halifax on 21 July, the other two followed two days later, carrying, according to one historian, a total of 568 men, women, and children. According to another historian, about 581 Maroons from Trelawny Town left Jamaica, and 17 died on
495-423: The decade. Immediate actions were put in place for the removal of the Trelawny Maroons to Lower Canada ( Quebec ); Upper Canada ( Ontario ) had also been suggested as a suitable place. The British decided to send this group to Halifax, Nova Scotia , until further instructions were received from England . William Quarrell and Alexander Ochterlony were sent from Jamaica with the maroons as commissioners. During
528-608: The fishing industry is declining, Trelawny still produces a large amount of fish . There are ten beaches along the coast, with more than 30 boats each, as well as 27 fish ponds. There are 25 factories in the parish. These produce sugar , rum , and apparel, among other things. Two of the eight remaining sugar factories in Jamaica are in Trelawny —Hampden Sugar Factory, and Trelawny Sugar, formerly Long Pond Sugar Factory. Trelawny Parish has two MPs and two constituencies ; Trelawny Northern and Trelawny Southern . Trelawny Parish
561-446: The island. It has a population of 75,558 as of 2012. Most of the parish is flat, with wide plains such as Queen of Spain's Valley, 230 metres (750 ft) above sea level , and Windsor, 180 metres (580 ft) above sea level. Most of southern Trelawny is around 230 metres (750 ft) above sea level. The highest point in the parish is Mount Ayr which is 910 metres (3,000 ft) above sea level. The southern section of Trelawny
594-403: The larger Sierra Leone Creole people and culture made up of freemen and liberated slaves who joined them in the first half-century of the colony. For a long period, they dominated the government and the economy of what developed into Sierra Leone . In the Colony of Jamaica , during the course of the Second Maroon War of 1795-6, the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) had the better of
627-585: The maroons, sailed again with them on 8 August, and arrived in Sierra Leone on 30 September that year. The maroons helped the British to put down a rebellion by the Black Nova Scotians , after which they received the best land and houses. In the first two months at Sierra Leone, 22 maroons died, mainly from disease, and over 150 took ill. At Trelawny Town, and throughout their exile to first Nova Scotia and then Sierra Leone, Montague James continued to command
660-421: The maroons. The Creole congregation of Freetown's St. John's Maroon Church , which was built by the maroons in 1822 on what is now the city's main street, have especially emphasized their descent from the Jamaican exiles. The maroons brought their ceremonial music and dances to Sierra Leone. The ceremonial music gradually became a popular Creole music genre and became known as Gumbe music and dance (named after
693-563: The parish of Trelawny as they were too far from administrative centres. Trelawny was named after Sir William Trelawny, 6th Baronet , the then Governor of Jamaica , whose prominent family had originated at the manor of Trelawny in the parish of Pelynt in Cornwall, England. The first capital was Martha Brae, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) inland from Rock Bay. Trelawny is best known for its sugar estates and sugar cane mills . It had more sugar estates than any other parish, so there
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#1733085546684726-574: The plantations. However, a second Maroon uprising in 1795 led to about 600 Maroons being exiled to Nova Scotia, Canada , and later to Sierra Leone in Africa, in 1800. In 2007, the opening ceremony for the ICC Cricket World Cup was held in Trelawny Parish. Trelawny is located at latitude 18°15'N, longitude 77°46'W. It has an area of 874 km , making it the fifth largest parish on
759-514: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carey_Park&oldid=1175149447 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Trelawny Parish Trelawny ( Jamaican Patois : Trilaani or Chrilaani )
792-483: The servile aspects of subsistence agriculture, became less tolerant of the conditions in which they were living. The colonel of the Trelawny Town Maroons, Montague James , wrote a number of petitions to England and Jamaica asking for them to be removed from Nova Scotia. The maroon colonel sent one of his junior officers, Charles Samuels (maroon) , to London to present information to Whig MP George Walpole about
825-491: The situation soured for the Maroons in the 1830s, when they objected to the use of corporal punishment in the military, and a new governor dismissed many Maroons from civil service jobs and gave them to Nova Scotians and Liberated Africans. Many Maroons were traders, but they could not compete with the Liberated Africans who came to the colony in large numbers, and took over the internal trade. European visitors observed that
858-462: The skirmishes. They only laid down their arms and surrendered in December 1795 on condition they would not be deported. General George Walpole gave the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island. The Jamaican governor, Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres , used the contrived breach of treaty as a pretext to deport most of the Trelawny Town Maroons to Nova Scotia . Walpole
891-658: The terrible conditions they had to endure in Nova Scotia. The Sierra Leone Company decided to send the maroons to its new colony of Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone ( West Africa ), which had been established for the Nova Scotian Settlers . The Maroon survivors from Nova Scotia were transported to Freetown in 1800, in the early years of the colony. The final leg of their journey was aboard HMS Asia . She arrived at Halifax on 31 May 1800, presumably still under her captain from 1796, Robert Murray , to pick up
924-481: The two commissioners responsible with credit of 25,000 Jamaican pounds from the government of Jamaica, expended £3,000 on 5,000 acres (20 km ) of land and built the community of Preston, Nova Scotia . Governor Wentworth was granted an allowance of £240 annually from England to provide religious instruction and schooling for the community. After the first winter, the maroons, raised in an independent culture and warmer climate, and not impressed with what they considered
957-579: The voyage. Prince Edward , the Commander-in-Chief, North America , impressed with the proud bearing and other characteristics of the maroons, employed the group to work on the new fortifications at the Citadel Hill in Halifax. Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Wentworth believed that the maroons would be good settlers. He received orders from the Duke of Portland to settle them in Nova Scotia. Following this
990-720: The world, was born and resided in Trelawny. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam , a Jamaican-American politician who served in the Maryland State Senate , was born in Trelawny. It is also the birthplace of 2008 USA Today High School Basketball Player of the Year Samardo Samuels , previously of the Cleveland Cavaliers . Other notable citizens include DJ Kamau Preston , dancehall artist Charly Black , basketballer Milo Channing, Rex Nettleford , University of Connecticut basketball player Kentan Facey , and star safety for
1023-586: Was disgusted with the governor's actions, pointing out that he had given the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island. Walpole resigned his commission, and went back to England, where he became an MP and protested in the House of Commons how Balcarres had behaved in a duplicitous and dishonest way with the Maroons. In 1796, just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Trelawny Town were deported to Nova Scotia , where loyal colonial slaves who had sought refuge behind English lines had also been sent earlier in
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1056-454: Was need for a sea coast town to export it. Falmouth became a thriving seaport and social centre. The town had two of its own newspapers ; The Falmouth Post and The Falmouth Gazette . Trelawny was also home to the largest group of Jamaican Maroons . A 1739 treaty between the Maroons and the English gave the Maroons freedom and land , which effectively put a stop to their raids on
1089-571: Was presented by 224 Sierra Leone Maroons to the British government, and this time the Jamaican authorities relented. They responded by saying they would place no obstacle in the way of Maroons returning to Jamaica, but would not pay any passage or the purchase of lands in the island. The final tipping point occurred in 1839, when a Liberated African apprentice, an Ibo named Martin, murdered his elderly Maroon employer, Major John Jarrett . A group of Maroons caught Martin, and they tortured him, and then burnt him to death to avenge Major Jarrett. The Ibo in
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