Existing comment:
Affidavit, Day 22, 1693
Submitted by Dudley Digges, Richard Whitaker, Cater Hubberd, William Cary, and William Rosser
Several white citizens of Warwick County (today Newport News) took their concerns about slave uprisings to Governor Edmund Andros with this affadavit. It relates how Frank, an enslaved man owned by Henry Gibbs, was questioned about "an Evil and Desperate design contrived by the Negroes." |