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Details of CO 137/393/36
Reference: CO 137/393/36
Description:

Rebellion of 'Negro population', high number of casualties and destruction of property reported. Started at court house in Morant Bay, St. Thomas in the East, and spread to surrounding areas. Troops and Maroons despatched. Martial law declared. Eyre blames agitators such as Baptist ministers and followers of Dr. E.B. Underhill, secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society in England, as well as Mr. G.W. Gordon, Member of Assembly and Baptist preacher.

Edward John Eyre, Governor of Jamaica, Jamaica no. 251, Folios 310-366.
Date: 1865 Oct 20
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 11221/1865
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Printed for Parliament Part I Dist Feb 1866

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