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EJMP.775.058
11 Aug 1775:23 (2/84)
Extract of a letter from Charlestown, (South-Carolina, June
18th 1775.
Last week two Negroes were heard, by their master, who lay
secreted, to mention a plan which had been laid to destroy
the white people, and take both town and country: they were
both taken up, and on trial discovered the whole plot. They
expected the King would send troops here, on the arrival of
which they were to set the town a fire, and fall on the
inhabitants. One Bishop a Dutchman, was to have been the
leader: he had been supplied with a large sum of money to
buy arms, drums, &c. he told the part of his house where the
money was kept, and many other circumstances, which on
searching appeared exactly as they had represented.
Sixteen-hundred pounds sterling in cash some drums &c. were
found in his house. Bishop was immediately committed to
goal, but has not as yet confessed anything. . .
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