[9] In 1774, a Maroon officer from Charles Town named Samuel Grant allegedly killed a white sea captain named Townshend and his black slave while hunting runaways in Hellshire, but at his trial at then capital Spanish Town, much to the surprise of local planters, Grant was acquitted of the murder of Townshend.
[10] In 1781, Charles Town Maroons Grant, William Carmichael Cockburn (Little Quaco) and John Reeder were a part of the Maroon party that successfully hunted and killed the notorious leader of a community of runaway slaves, Three Fingered Jack.
[14][15] In 1807, the colonial authorities exposed a slave conspiracy, and one of the informers claimed that the Charles Town Maroons under Major Robert Bentham were conspirators.
William Anderson Orgill, the magistrate who investigated the case, dismissed the evidence of the slave conspirators, and chose to believe Grant's expressions of loyalty.
[16] Under the leadership of Charles Town superintendent Alexander Fyfe (Fyffe), the Maroons helped to put down the Christmas Rebellion of 1831–2, also known as the Baptist War, led by Samuel Sharpe.
[18] Charles Town converted to Christianity in the nineteenth century, eventually embracing the Anglican Church.
[19] c. 1760s Captain Quaco and Captain Cain c. 1776 Colonel George Gray c. 1796 Lieutenant-colonel Afee Cudjoe c. 1796 – c. 1808 Colonel Samuel Grant (d. 1808) c. 1807 Lieutenant-colonel James Giscomb and Major Robert Bentham[20] c. 1759 Patrick Fleming c. 1763 – c. 1769 Francis Ross c. 1773 – c. 1792 Peter Ingram 1792 – 1795 John Ingram 1795 – 1801 James Anderson (d. 1801) 1804 – 1806 Philip Ellis 1806 – 1808/9 Peter Grant 1808/9 – 1811/12 William Dove 1811/12 – 1816 Edward Pinnock Wallen 1816 – 1827 Robert Gray 1827 – 1829 Alexander Gordon Fyffe 1829 – 1831 Leonard Baugh 1831 – 1833 Alexander Gordon Fyffe 1833 – ?