Printed Manuscript Document Signed by Murray John, Signed (1 results)

one-page 4to. (left-hand margin backed & with some loss of paper). MURRAY, John [c1739-1824] [British Colonial Administrator of Cape Breton (1799-1801); first Lieutenant-Governor of Demerary and Essequibo (1813-24). Printed and Manuscript Document, Signed, with embossed seal, dated George-Town, January 12, 1819. The document certifies that H. Ivan de Water who has signed a document "purporting to be a Power of Attorney from Park Benjamin of this Colony, Esquire, in favor of W.P. Cleaveland and Peter Richards Esqrs residing in New London, State of Connecticut" is duly authorized as a sworn clerk in the Colony and a Notary Public. Also signed by John Chapman, General Secretary. As Lieutenant-Governor of Demerary and Essequibo Murray was responsible for putting down the 1823 two-day slave rebellion led by Quamina and his son Jack Gladstone. Comprising some 10,000 slaves, it was one of the largest such insurrections in the British colonies before slavery was abolished. W.P. Park Benjamin, the father of the American editor and poet Park Benjamin, was a sea-captain and trader of old New England stock who had extensive interests in Norwich, Conn., and Demerara. Cleaveland was a director for life of the American Home Missionary Society.