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NM.768.010
2-9 May 1768:23 (505)
Yesterday arrived Capt Winter from Montserrat, who gives us
the following particulars, that on Wednesday the 16th of
March, a Negro called on a white woman, and told her he must
have his jacket she was making, as he was going into the
country, and asked her to let him take her child, that it
was a pity it should be killed, for there would not be many
white men alive on Saturday, as the Negroes would destroy
them all on Friday night, the 18th, (being Shelah's night,
on which was to be a grand ball) but the women would be
spared for wives for the Negroes. The woman immediately
lodged an information, when the drums beat to arms, and the
militia, (about 100 men) the troops 40, and the sailors with
their captains turned out and mounted guard. On the 18th
they got two great guns, and several smaller out of the
fort, and placed them at the most convenient places, when
the Negroes finding the people on their guard they thought
best to drop their design. On the 23d, fifty soldiers from
Antigua arrived; several Negroes were taken, who are
confined on board the vessels and in the fort. . .
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