In a letter to the Secretary of War, William Blathwayt, Francis Howard, Fifth Baron Howard of Effingham, describes displacing resistance leaders to royal authority on the Council.
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In a letter to the Secretary of War, William Blathwayt, Francis Howard, Fifth Baron Howard of Effingham, describes displacing resistance leaders to royal authority on the Council.
In the official record of the governor’s Council for October 24, 1687, Virginia governor Francis Howard, baron Howard of Effingham, announces that Nicholas Spencer, the colony’s secretary and a resident of Westmoreland County, had uncovered a conspiracy among the slaves there. Some spelling has been modernized and contractions expanded.