[11]. This farm was under the charge of a slave named Billy, who became a witness for the state and gave some important details of the meetings of the Gullahs. Several of whom were executed on the 26th.
[12]. This Confession of Purcell’s will show, that the evil foretold, from the discussion of the Missouri Question, has been, in some degree, realized.
[13]. See Enslow’s Confession, Appendix (M.)
[14]. An appellation, the seceders assumed after their leaving the white Methodist Church.
[15]. Against this witness, the Court had not a tittle of testimony; he consented without hesitation to become a witness, and to give all the information he possessed; a pledge having been previously given him by the Court, that he should not be prosecuted, nor his name revealed.
[16]. Perault unhesitatingly stated to Monday’s face, that he had written two letters, to St. Domingo, and that he (Perault) had gone to Vanderhorsts wharf with him, in April or May last, to give them in charge of a black cook on board of a schooner bound to that island. After Monday was so charged, he confessed that the fact was so, and that he had been induced to conceal it under an apprehension that if it were known he had been guilty of such an act all chance of mercy would be denied him.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
- Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.