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BG.736.011
22-29 Nov 1736:22,31 (881)
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Antiqua to his
friend in Boston, dated October 18.1736.
This island is in a very great confusion at present, about
the Negroes rising in battle against us,. . .
Mrs. Lodg's Fortune (a fidler) burnt alive in the pasture of
Major Otter's. . .
St. John's in Antiqua, Octo. 24. 1736.
Here has been a general stop to all business, occasioned by
the happy discovery of an accursed Negro plot, which should
have been perpetrated on the 11th instant, which was the
anniversary of the King's coronation, on which day the
General usually gives a handsome ball to the gentlemen and
ladies of the whole island, but was postponed till the 30th
instant, upon the account of the death of the General's son
at St. Christophers some little time ago: This was the only
preservative to all our lives; the plot was thus, viz One
Court, a Negro man belonging to Thomas Kerby, Esq; was the
chief person in this affair: Tomboy a Negro man belonging to
Mr. Thomas Hanston: Hercules, a Negro man belonging to Mr.
John Christophers: These two was to have been this King
Court's head generals, and while the gentlemen and ladies
were diverting themselves at the ball, which was to have
been held at Mr. Christopher Dunbar's new house, they were
to convey a great quantity of gunpowder into the cellar and
blow the house up,. . .
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