Four years later in , they were transported to Sierra Leone. Some Jamaican Maroons eventually returned to Jamaica, but most became part of the larger Sierra Leone Creole people and culture made up of freemen and liberated slaves who joined them in the first half-century of the colony. For a long period, they dominated the government and the economy of what developed into Sierra Leone.
They only laid down their arms and surrendered in December on condition they would not be deported. General George Walpole gave the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island. Walpole was disgusted with the governor's actions, pointing out that he had given the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island. Walpole resigned his commission, and went back to England, where he became an MP and protested in the House of Commons how Balcarres had behaved in a duplicitous and dishonest way with the Maroons.
In , just under Jamaican Maroons from Trelawny Town were deported to Nova Scotia , where loyal colonial slaves who had sought refuge behind English lines had also been sent earlier in the decade. The British decided to send this group to Halifax, Nova Scotia , until further instructions were received from England. William Quarrell and Alexander Ochterlony were sent from Jamaica with the maroons as commissioners. During the course of his administration, Ochterlony took half a dozen maroon women as mistresses.
Quarrell tried in vain to break up the maroons as a community. One arrived in Halifax on 21 July, the other two followed two days later, carrying, according to one historian, a total of men, women, and children. Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Wentworth believed that the maroons would be good settlers.
He received orders from the Duke of Portland to settle them in Nova Scotia. After the first winter, the maroons, raised in an independent culture and warmer climate, and not impressed with what they considered the servile aspects of subsistence agriculture, became less tolerant of the conditions in which they were living.
