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AWM.736.057
25 Nov-2 Dec 1736:31, 32 (883)
We are inform'd from Antigua, that the Negroes there lately
combin'd to rise and destroy the white people, and had so
artfully laid their scheme, that had it not been timely
discover'd, they would undoubtedly therein accomplish'd
their ends. The design was: On a ball night (which if the
General's son's death had not prevented, was to have been
the 11th of October) to have blown up the ball house at the
ringing of the nine o'clock bell, and at the same time four
companies of Negroes, consisting of 400 each, and headed by
their principals, were to enter the town with cutlasses, &c.
and to have kill'd and cut to pieces all who oppos'd them.
One of the chief conspirators was a very good carpenter, and
was to have been employ'd in building the seats in the ball
room, and so would have it in his power to conceal what
powder he pleased. But their hellish contrivance being
discover'd by some threats which they gave out, twelve of
the contrivers were deservedly put to death, . . .
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