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Catalogue reference: CO 101/25/34
This record is about the Case of Rorey, an enslaved African at the Observatory Plantation charged with murder... dating from 1784 July 24 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Grenada, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Case of Rorey, an enslaved African at the Observatory Plantation charged with murder of Peter, an enslaved African at Belmont Plantation; Transmits letter from Mr. Ninian Home, a member of Council, and Mr. John Castles, a Member of the Assembly of Grenada, before whom, as Justices of the Peace, Mathew writes a 'Negro belonging to Colonel Harry Gordon' was found guilty of murder; they recommend him as an object of mercy; recommended by 'several other very respectable Gentlemen in the Island'; Mathew recommends mercy due to 'good character he is represented to have always maintained; and having frequently rendered Services to the Colony, by his Activity & Vigilence in suppressing the Runaway Negroes.'
Edward Mathew, Governor of Grenada, Grenada, Folios 175 - 178.
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