Captain Davy (d. late 1700s) was an eighteenth-century Maroon officer at Scott's Hall who gained notoriety by killing coromantyne Tacky (chief) of the tribe, the leader of Tacky's Revolt, the most dangerous slave rebellion in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
While running at full speed, Davy shot Tacky and cut off his head as evidence, for which he would be richly rewarded.
[2][3][4][5][6] The treaties of 1739 and 1740 required the Maroons to hunt runaway slaves, for which they received rewards from the colonial authorities.
After making his name killing Tacky, Davy found that many planters were willing to pay him to hunt down their runaway slaves.
[7] In 1774, while Davy was leading a group of Maroons hunting runaways near Hellshire Beach, one of his young followers, Samuel Grant, accidentally killed a white sea captain named Thompson.