Footnote 106: [(return)]
Official Report, 96-97, and Higginson, 232-3.
Footnote 107: [(return)]
Official Report, 20. Note that Higginson, who was so untiring in his research, strangely confuses Jack Purcell and Gullah Jack (p. 230). The men were quite distinct, as appears throughout the report and from the list of those executed. The name of Gullah Jack's owner was Pritchard.
Footnote 108: [(return)]
Official Report, 24. Note that this remarkable characterization was given by the judges, Kennedy and Parker, who afterwards condemned the men to death.
Footnote 109: [(return)]
Official Report, 31-32.
Footnote 110: [(return)]
Higginson, 215.
Footnote 111: [(return)]
For reasons of policy the names of these informers were withheld from publication, but they were well known, of course, to the Negroes of Charleston. The published documents said of the chief informer, "It would be a libel on the liberality and gratitude of this community to suppose that this man can be overlooked among those who are to be rewarded for their fidelity and principle." The author has been informed that his reward for betraying his people was to be officially and legally declared "a white man."
Footnote 112: [(return)]
Jervey: Robert Y. Hayne and His Times, 131-2.
Footnote 113: [(return)]
Bennett letter.
Footnote 114: [(return)]
See City Gazette, August 14, 1822, cited by Jervey.
Footnote 115: [(return)]
Official Report, 44.