Moore Town is a Maroon settlement located in the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains of Portland, Jamaica,[1] accessible by road from Port Antonio. The easternmost Maroon town, Moore Town is located in the eastern end of the parish.[2] Formerly known as New Nanny Town, Moore Town was founded in 1740 when the Peace Treaty was signed between the British colonial authorities and the Windward Maroons.[3] This treaty allotted the Moore Town Maroons 1000 acres, but Moore Town only received 500.[3][4][5] In 1781 the initial 500 acres was augmented with another 500 acres, taking their communal land up to 1,000 acres.[3][6]
While Maroons and the British initially referred to this settlement as New Nanny Town, from 1760 the colonial authorities called it Moore Town or Muretown, when it was reportedly named after acting governor Sir Henry Moore.[3][7]
As of 2009 Moore Town has a reported population of 1,106.[8]
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- ^ Bev Carey, The Maroon Story: The Authentic and Original History of the Maroons in the History of Jamaica 1490-1880 (Kingston, Jamaica: Agouti Press, 1997), pp. 413-423.
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- ^ "Moore Town | Portland Municipal Corporation". portlandpc.gov.jm. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^ Michael Siva, After the Treaties: A Social, Economic and Demographic History of Maroon Society in Jamaica, 1739-1842, PhD Dissertation (Southampton: Southampton University, 2018), p. 82. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01019153409&indx=1&recIds=BLL01019153409&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&frbg=&&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl(2084770704UI0)=any&tb=t&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=michael%20sivapragasam&dstmp=1546605833202
- ^ Siva, After the Treaties, p. 82.
- ^ Siva, After the Treaties, p. 58. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/423482/1/LIBRARY_COPY_After_The_Treaties_Final.pdf
- ^ "Jamaica: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2009.