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According to Burdon, Hughson planned to burn down Fort George, in what is now the heart of Manhattan’s downtown financial district. Burton testified that, according to Hughson??s scheme, “when as the white People came to extinguish it, [the conspirators] would kill and destroy them.” Burton named names...
...prisons and the gallows filled alarmingly, the governor began offering pardons for those who confessed to the crime and alerted authorities to other, previously unknown accomplices. A waterfall of confessions followed, although they often contradicted each other. According to some, the conspiracy was hatched at Hughson??s (located near what is now Ground Zero). No, said others, meetings were at the house of cooper Geradus Comfort next door. And no, still others said, they were at both Hughson??s and Comfort’s. These confessions, made under obvious duress, were enough to condemn the accused...
...Justice Horsmanden could crow, “the Old proverb has herein … been verified That there is Scarce a plot but a priest is at the Bottom of it.” Burton suddenly “remembered” the presence of a priest at Hughson??s, and other witnesses were mustered who agreed. The priest was hanged. When Burton started remembering that “People in Ruffles”–influential men who were held above suspicion–participated too, the trials came to a hasty close...
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