The New Hampshire Gazette

NEW YORK, December 17.

On Tuesday last arrived a Sloop, Capt. Geary in 8 Days from Bermuda, by whom we hear that a dangerous Conspiracy among the Negroes was lately discovered there. not two Days before it was to have been executed. The Particulars of this horrid Plot, so far as we have heard, are as follows. viz. That it had been in Agitation above six Months. a Number of very sensible Fellows, very much in Credit with all the white People that knew them, and capable of managing most sorts of Business, having been concerned ; by the Means of those, the Plot was communicated, and become general among the Negroes over the whole Island. They collected by little at a Time, a considerable Quantity of Powder, and found means to get a Number of Muskets and other Fire Arms. They had appointed Captains, and other Officers, and assigned them their proper Stations. On Sunday a Captain and a sufficient Number of his Men, were to surround each of the Churches and Meeting Houses in the Island. in the Time of divine Service. who were to shut the Doors and Murder the People: and then also Murder all the remaining Men in the Island, except three ; one of whom was to be Governor, the other two were Seamen, reserved to carry them, after some Time, to such Place as they should chuse.

They had judiciously concerted every part of this Plot : there was not the least Suspicion of it, when on the Friday Night before the fatal Sunday, a young Man, an Apprentice, going to his Mother's House, left the Road, and crossed the Fields, as being nearer ; in his Way lay a thick unfrequented Wood, where hearing People talk, he approached so near as to overhear a great Part of their Design : and he presently knew one of the principal Actors by his Voice.

He then withdrew undiscovered, and the next Day informed a Magistrate. The Fellow that was known, was immediately secured, having been a kind of Intelligencer. and one of the most active among them. He turned King's Evidence, great Numbers were taken up, & more expected ; several had been burnt. and the whole Island was under a general Consternation.---It is said the Negroes are thrice as many as the Whites.