Catalogue reference: CO 101/34/9 folio 22. Crown Copyright.
Grenada 28th March 1795
My Lord Duke,
I have great concern in ac:
quainting Your Grace that a General
Insurrection of the French Free Coloured
People broke out in this Island on the
Night of the 2nd instant, and commenced
by the massacre of the English white
Inhabitants at Grenville Bay, and
the seizure of the persons of the English
white Inhabitants at Charlottetown
and on several Estates in the Country.
The Lieutenant Governor had gone
on the afternoon of the 2nd to the wind:
ward side of the Island and in attempt:
ing to return next morning to Saint
George’s by water, was unfortunately
captured by the Insurgents off
Charlottetown in consequence of
which it became necessary for me
to assume the command as senior
resident Member of His Majesty’s
Council.
