[1] Forbes was the white superintendent of the Jamaican Maroons town of Accompong from 1773 until the end of the century.
[2] By 1772, Forbes owned the estate outright, and he built a Great house[3] around the 1740s.
[4] The enslaved Africans on the estate became Moravians following the missionary work by this Protestant group.
Following emancipation these people moved off the estate and established the modern settlement of Aberdeen, retaining their links to the Moravian church.
In the first half of the 1800s, runaway slaves created the community of Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come on the land of Aberdeen in the Cockpit Country.