Well, I have stumbled upon a clue about the Maroons who descend from Jacob
Maroon. Jacob can first be found in the Granville co NC tax records in 1755 with
sons Peter and John. Jacob's grandson Samuel who ended up in Bradley co,
Tennessee, listed his father's place of birth as Holland in the 1880 census.

Family story in the Cleveland TN area is the family is from Germany, so I
ignored Samuel's claim in favor of the story, not to mention his father John
served (for a while) in a German speaking unit during the Revolution. I was
assuming perhaps Samuel was mistaken (he was only 5 or 6 years old when his
father died) about his father's place of origin, or perhaps John was born in
Amsterdam while awaiting transport from that sea port. Another problem with the
Netherlands as a place of origin is I couldn't find the surname anywhere in the
place.

Well, I think I'm revising my theory again. I may need to just take Samuel's
word for it. There were, in fact, Maroons in the Netherlands at about the time
of Jacobs assumed passage to America. And the name patterns fit the early NC
Maroon family. Jacobus (Jacob), Pieter (Peter), Johannes (John), and Susanna all
pop up in the Amsterdam and surrounding areas. Some of them much later, but some
during just the right time (Johannes Maroon wed Geertruijt Fredreicx in 1698 in
Amsterdam).

I found this new evidence in the new LDS search engine Record Search Pilot and
the IGI at familysearch.org.

So, I'm leaning back in this direction, after taking a brief detour. The only
real record we have for John Maroon's place of origin is Samuel's statement to
the census taker. With new tantalizing hints about the surname in "Holland", I'm
thinking I need to take his statement seriously, and focus my research there.

So, what do y'all think?

--Jim Maroon