Plymouth was a pre-revolutionary maroon leader whose band operated out of Nippes and devastated plantations in the Grand-Anse region of the South Province, so effectively that colonial authorities mobilized mulatto soldiers to suppress him.
He was killed in 1730, but part of the southern peninsula retained his name — making him one of the clearest examples in Saint-Domingue of maroon resistance inscribed in place-memory. Eddins situates him in a chapter on geographies of subversion alongside Le Maniel and other maroon border landscapes. He belongs to the pre-1791 generation of southern maroon leaders who made the southern mountains politically meaningful before the revolution.
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Maroon Band Leader, Grand-Anse/Nippes Region
Led a maroon band from Nippes that conducted sustained raids on plantations in the Grand-Anse zone; killed by mulatto soldiers in 1730.