John Ayscough (d. 1735) was Chief Justice of Jamaica in 1724. Cundall, Frank. (1915
''Historic Jamaica''.
London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix. Ayscough also served as Acting Governor of the

Colony of Jamaica The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was pri ...

from 1726-8 and 1734-5, when the island was embroiled in fighting the

Maroons Maroons are descendants of African diaspora in the Americas, Africans in the Americas who escaped from slavery and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples, eventually ethnogenesi ...

in the

First Maroon War The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. It was led by self-liberated Africans who set up communities i ...

. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to subdue the

Jamaican Maroons Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery on the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Africans who were ensla ...

. He died in 1735, during his second term as acting governor.Carey, Bev (1997). ''The Maroon Story: The Authentic and Original History of the Maroons in the History of Jamaica 1490–1880''. Kingston, Jamaica: Agouti Press, pp. 257-314.

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