☞ A journal of the proceedings in the detection of the conspiracy formed by some white people, in conjunction with Negro and other slaves, for burning the city of New-York in America, and murdering the inhabitants : ... containing, I. a narrative of the trials, condemnations, executions, and behaviour of the several criminals, at the gallows and stake, with their speeches and confessions; with notes, observations and reflections occasionally interspersed throughout the whole : II. an appendix, wherein is set forth some additional evidence concerning the said conspiracy and conspirators, which has come to light since their trials and executions : III. Lists of the several persons (whites and blacks) committed on account of the conspiracy; and of the several criminals executed; and of those transported, with the places whereto.

Creator(s): Horsmanden, Daniel, 1694-1778 (Author)
Related APS Member(s):
Daniel Horsmanden
Publication: New York: Printed by James Parker, at the new printing-office, 1744.
Subjects:
Trials (Conspiracy) -- New York (State) -- New York., Conspiracy -- New York (State) -- New York., African American criminals -- New York (State) -- New York., New York (New York) -- History -- Conspiracy of 1741., New York (New York) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Record Source:
AAS
References:
Sabin 33058 | Sabin 33059 | Sabin 33060 | Sabin 33061 | Evans 5413 | Shaw-Shoemaker 20384 | Howes H 652
Editions: 1x 1744 (New York), 1x 1747 (London), 1x 1810 (New York), 1x 1851 (New York)
Editions Note: Four editions plus one abridgement: the first a simultaneous publication from the same type setting in both quarto and folio formats; the second a London reprinting bearing the same title in 1747; the third a New York edition from 1810 bearing the title, The New-York conspiracy, or a history of the Negro plot, with the journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New-York in the years 1741-2; and the fourth a New York edition from 1851 bearing the title, The Negro conspiracy in the city of New York, in 1741. One section of the text, abridged from the 1810 edition, was also published separately in Philadelphia in 1899 as The trial of John Ury : "for being an ecclesiastical person, made by authority pretended from the see of Rome, and coming into and abiding in the province of New York," and with [sic] being one of the conspirators in the Negro plot to burn the city of New York, 1741.
Holding Note: APS has one copy of the 1744 first edition.
BibNumber: 18.001