Unrest
The next year, John Hamilton writes with further bad news, this time closer to home:
The Parish and island for this six weeks past has been in grate confusion on account of ane insurrection that happened amongst the Negroes in St Mary’s… one of your Negroes, named [missing] a noted runaway was taken up the night the affair started in his way there as the people say to have caried out pacts of your Negroes, to join the rebels, after he was examined they found him guilty and have had him hanged. The others were all verie lasy wee hear. [DC17/113]
Unfortunately the name of the hanged slave is missing from the weathered document; if it had been legible, the name could be checked against the list made of the estate in 1756.