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Xaymaca is the third largest of the Caribbean islands, and the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean Sea. Situated 90 miles south of Cuba, 600 miles south of Florida, USA, and 100 miles south-west of Haiti, Jamaica is approximately 146 miles long, 51 miles wide, and has an area of 4,411 square miles.
XAYMACA
Arawak Maroon
THE INTERBREED OF THE ARAWAKS(TAINOS) AND THE MAROONS OF GHANA
OUR STORY
Xaymaca — "land of wood and water" — was first settled by the Arawak (Taíno) people, the island's first inhabitants. When enslavement and disease destroyed much of that first nation, Africans brought to the island in chains escaped to its mountains and forests and built free communities of their own. These were the Maroons — from the Spanish "cimarrón," the untamed ones who lived on the summits. They joined with surviving Indigenous people, farmed the high country, and defended their freedom settlement by settlement.
Jamaica's Maroons stood in two great divisions: the Windward Maroons of the east, led by Queen Nanny, and the Leeward Maroons of the west, led by Kojo (Cudjoe). After more than 80 years of war, the Leeward Maroons signed a peace treaty with the British in 1739, and the Windward Maroons followed in 1740 — treaties won by arms, not granted. That peace held for over half a century, until broken promises and a soured relationship at Trelawny Town ignited the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.
McGregor Clan Maroon Tribe Ancestors
Documented record: Scots were carried to Jamaica as early as 1656, when Cromwell deported some 1,200 Scottish prisoners of war to the island; by 1750 Scots made up roughly a third of Jamaica's white population. MacGregors under the Gregg alias are documented fleeing persecution to Ireland around 1655, and in 1718 the Rev. James McGregor led the Bann Valley migration from Ireland to New Hampshire — McGregors reaching the free world of the Americas in the early 1700s, in the record.
Family record (held by the High Chief): his great-great-grandfather Richard McGregor, a planter in Jamaica, one of three brothers who left Scotland for Jamaica; the will Richard McGregor wrote in 1895 is in the family's keeping.
The McGregors of Cedar Valley
The Jamaica Almanacs record John McGregor as proprietor at Cedar Valley (then in St. Thomas in the Vale, now St. Catherine) from 1822 — 191 acres by 1845 — with James McGregor at Simmer's Valley and R. McGregor at Woodside beside him: a McGregor cluster of landowners. A Presbyterian congregation stood at Cedar Valley by 1865, ministered by the Rev. Maurice G. Mitchell — the Rev. M. G. Mitchell whose name bounds Richard McGregor's lands in his will. Richard McGregor, Planter of Cedar Valley, died 30 September 1895 holding the property called "Cedar Valley," shop premises, the Bakery House, and lands let to tenants (will dated 24 August 1895; probate Liber 2, Folio 101, Resident Magistrate's Court, St. Catherine). In Kingston, the land at McGregor Square was donated by Bro. R. E. McGregor, as the District Grand Lodge of Scotland's own history of Glenlyon Lodge records.
:McGregor Clan: Sovereigns Promoting Maroons in Atlantis Xaymaca(Jamaica)
Jamaica's Maroons are the most widely known of all Maroon peoples — and their story begins in Jamaica. Two great divisions fought Britain through more than 80 years of war: the Windward Maroons of the east, led by Queen Nanny of Nanny Town in the Blue Mountains, and the Leeward Maroons of the west, led by Captain Cudjoe (Kojo). The peace treaties of 1739–1740 granted the Maroons state-sanctioned freedom and land — freedom won by arms. Cudjoe is celebrated each year at Accompong, where Maroons process to the Peace Cave, site of the treaty. Four Jamaican Maroon communities stand today, including Charles Town, Moore Town, and Accompong — living proof that the Maroons were never defeated.
XAYMACA ASHANTI TOWN MAROON FOR THE INCARNATED
High Chief/ Kemtic Chief High Priest: :Andrew McGregor, First Among Equals
We the indigenous people inhabiting the archipelago within the North American territory of the Americas, referred to as Xaymaca (Jamaica) have reaffirmed our independence and Birthright. Our self government is styled as the "McGregor Clan Sovereign Maroon Tribe and make it public that all our lands inhabited in all the North Americas remain sovereign.
Moore Town Maroon Registry of all Registered Maroon Family
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:McGregor Clan: Sovereign Maroon Office in Canada has started a S.H.E.A.P program and is seeking HELP. We are raising money to help the Sick, Homeless, Elderly, Abused People (S.H.E.A.P) in Jamaica and individuals worldwide who are experiencing difficulties. Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate a lot or a little. Anything helps. Thank you for your support. I've included information about our movement below and is looking forward for each and everyone support. Learn more...
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