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mcnt belonging to Messrs. Stevens and Bernard, a 

 plantation called Bandon, a house of a Mr. Lewis, 



and various others. 



At these places several white people unfortunately 

 fell into their hands, all of whom were murdered in 

 cold blood, without any distinction of sex, or regard 

 to age. Even women in child-bed, and infants at the 



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breast, were alike indiscriminately slaughtered by this 

 savage enemy; and the shrieks ot the miserable victims, 

 which were distinctly heard at the posts of the British 

 detachments, frequently conveyed the first notice, 

 that the Maroons were in the neighbourhood. 



The fate of Mr. Gowdie, a respectable and vene- 

 rable planter, who lived within a few miles of Tre- 

 lawney tow r n, was remarkable. This gentleman, 

 having a better opinion of the Maroons than they de- 

 served, had employed one of their chief men to act 

 as the overseer or superintendant of his plantation, 

 whom he treated with singular kindness, and allowed 

 him the same wages as would have been paid to a 

 white person in the same capacity. Although, on the 

 commencement of hostilities, this man had joined the 

 insurgents, Mr. Gowdie continued to place a fatal 

 dependance on his fidelity, and was induced to visit 

 his own plantation, as often as his necessary attend- 

 ance on military duty would allow. He had the 

 most perfect confidence that his Maroon overseer 

 would interfere to protect him from danger ; yet did 

 this barbarous villain come himself to the house of his 

 benefactor, at the head of a band of savages, and 

 having coollv informed Mr. Gowdie, that the Ma- 



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