| Citation |
PG-P.736.065
2-9 Dec 1736:22 (417)
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Antigua 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, (the plot happened
to be found out just before it came to head) and therefore
hope we shall find means to prevent it; it was so far gone
that they had all their posts, and was to attack us the 30th
of this instant, by blowing up the Ball House, and then a
great army to come to town to fight and devour men women and
children, . . . [6 lines]
Negroes executed.
Mr. Kerby's Court
Tho. Hanson, jun's Tomboy
John Christopher's Hercules.
Rack'd to death in the Market place.
Mrs. Lodg's Fortune (a fidler)
Philip Darby's Jack . . .
The following is an extract of another letter from
Antigua. St. John's in Antigua, Oct 24. 1736
Here has been a general stop to all business, occasioned by
the happy discovery of an accursed Negroe plot, which should
have been prepetrated 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 of all our lives. . . [6 lines, the plot:]
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. . .
|