Major Jarrett

Who is Major Jarrett?

Major Jarrett was a Jamaican Maroon leader of the maroons of Trelawny Town in Jamaica and also was one of the 600 maroons who immigrated to Freetown, Sierra Leone. Jarrett and his descendants lived around Maroon Town, Sierra Leone and the Jarretts are a prominent Creole family. Some of the Jarretts immigrated to Liberia and assimillated into Americo-Liberian society. Descendants include the offspring and grandchildren and great grandchildren of Theopholus Kennickson Jarrett who emigrated from Freetown to Liberia in the early 1900s to become an accomplished trader and District Commissioner based in Timbo in the Bassa speaking territory of South Eastern Liberia, such as the long serving diplomat and former deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, of Liberia and Ambassador to the UN, New York, Ambassador Sylvester Omotunde Jarrett, the medical doctor and past president of the West African College of Physicians, Dr. J.M. Bankole Jarrett. and the former BBC World Service broadcaster and deputy director of the Africa Progress Panel, Max Bankole Jarrett.