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The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser
Martinsburg, Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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Schooner Peggy arrives from St. Marks, Hispaniola, confirming negro insurrection ravaging the island. Negroes defeated in three attacks on Cape Francois with 2000 killed and 2000 captured (every tenth beheaded); whites suffer losses including 50 in one regiment. Mulattoes offer to help suppress revolt if whites follow National Assembly decrees. Over 60 American vessels detained at Cape.
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N E W-Y O R K. Sept. 28.
The schooner Peggy, Capt. White, arrived on Saturday in 10 days from St. Marks, Hispaniola.
He confirms the accounts we had before received from that island. The distressed situation of the white people almost exceeds description. The negroes having desolated and destroyed all the open country, proceeded to attack Cape Francois. They were defeated with great slaughter in three desperate attempts on that town. In one defeat 2000 of them were killed and 2000 taken prisoners, of whom every tenth man was beheaded. Many of the white people were also killed in these conflicts--one regiment alone lost fifty men killed in one engagement.
The mulattoes had not joined the negroes; they were in arms for their own defence, and had informed the white people, that if they would conform to the decrees of the National Assembly, they would assist them to suppress the insurrection. We do not learn whether any or what answer has been given to this message.
Upwards of sixty sail of American vessels are detained at the Cape.
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St. Marks, Hispaniola
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Arrived On Saturday In 10 Days From St. Marks
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2000 negroes killed and 2000 taken prisoners of whom every tenth man was beheaded in one defeat; one regiment of white people lost fifty men killed in one engagement
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The schooner Peggy, Capt. White, arrived on Saturday in 10 days from St. Marks, Hispaniola. He confirms the accounts we had before received from that island. The distressed situation of the white people almost exceeds description. The negroes having desolated and destroyed all the open country, proceeded to attack Cape Francois. They were defeated with great slaughter in three desperate attempts on that town. In one defeat 2000 of them were killed and 2000 taken prisoners, of whom every tenth man was beheaded. Many of the white people were also killed in these conflicts--one regiment alone lost fifty men killed in one engagement. The mulattoes had not joined the negroes; they were in arms for their own defence, and had informed the white people, that if they would conform to the decrees of the National Assembly, they would assist them to suppress the insurrection. We do not learn whether any or what answer has been given to this message. Upwards of sixty sail of American vessels are detained at the Cape.