Maroon Town, Sierra Leone, is a district in the settlement of Freetown, a colony founded in West Africa by Great Britain.
This move was welcomed by the Sierra Leone Company, which wanted to reestablish a colony, but lacked colonists.
[5][6] Once there, the Nova Scotian Settlers (as they came to be called) and Sierra Leone Company surveyors founded Freetown.
[1] The Nova Scotian Settlers had sought to obtain better treatment and more power, clashing constantly with the colonial governors and the Sierra Leone Company since first setting foot in the colony in 1792, but the timely arrival of the "battle-tested" Maroons and a detachment of 45 soldiers and two officers aboard the ship Asia enabled the authorities to put down a rebellion by some of the Nova Scotian Settlers and win the power struggle.
[7] By the 1830s, the Maroons had integrated into Freetown society[7] and become a part of the Sierra Leone Creole people.