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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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On Tuesday night, a group of men, mostly Black, from a tender raided Benjamin Wells's house at Mulberry Island, stealing valuables including bedding, apparel, liquors, a watch, poultry, and abducting two Negro girls. They threatened to burn the house but relented due to sick children inside.
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from a tender, came up to mr. Benjamin Wells's.
at Mulberry island, and pillaged his house of every
thing valuable, such as bedding, wearing apparel,
liquors, a watch, the stock of poultry, and carried
off two negro girls. They told mrs. Wells, that
they had orders to burn the house; which they
would certainly have put in execution, had it not
been for her earnest entreaty to spare it that time,
as she had some sick children in bed, who must
perish in the flames.
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Mulberry Island
Event Date
Last Tuesday Night
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house pillaged of valuables and poultry; two negro girls carried off; house spared from burning due to sick children.
Event Details
A party of men, chiefly blacks, from a tender, came to mr. Benjamin Wells's house at Mulberry island and pillaged it of bedding, wearing apparel, liquors, a watch, stock of poultry, and carried off two negro girls. They threatened to burn the house but spared it after mrs. Wells's entreaty regarding her sick children.