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given your Lordship this information I could not have 
been excused. 
G. Clarke, Junior, to Mr. Andre Amyot* London, 3Tst May, 1763^ 
It is with great concern that I inform you I received 
three days ago letters from my father giving me an 
account that Mr. WILTSHIRE, a gentleman of credit, 
who went to Demerary to look at GASCOIGNE'ST Estate, 
was returned express from that river with an account 
that a certain CORNELIS ANDERSON had, a few days 
before, saved himself by flight from Berbice to Demerary 
with 126 of his best negroes, and gives the following 
melancholy relation of what happened in that river, viz., 
that on the 3rd March the Creole negroes mutinied, and 
put themselves at the head of many others, to the 
amount of near 3,000, and began to kill everybody that 
opposed them, men, women, and children. This 
CORNELIS ANDERSON knows of ten plantations that 
they nearly destroyed, and killed the whole families, with 
all the Indians and negroes that stood by them. On the 
7th or 8th March, the Governor (through fear or some 
other motive) blew up the fort, destroyed all the ammuni- 
tion &c, and embarked on board a Dutch ship lying in 
the river, so that these murdering villains got possession 
of the whole river without the least trouble, chiefly 
occasioned, 'tis thought, by being afraid of them ; for I 
am sure you and I with 20 more could have kept off 
4,000 such rascals in that fort. One or two discharges 
* Paulas Amyot, probably related to the addressee of this letter, 
was owner of Pin. Niew Amsterdam, the third estate below Christian- 
burg. 
t George Gascoigne owned Pin. Beehive at the mouth of the 
Camouni Creek, as well as Utica, the next estate up the same creek. 
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