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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF MR. CORDON. (Extractedfrom the Report of the Royal Commissioners.) The affairs of the parish of St. Thoroas-in-the-Eost were the subject of great interest among many of the parishioners who were friends of Mr. Gordon. Many looked to him for advice, which they relied on and followed. Among these was Paul liogle, who cultivated a few acres of land at Stony Gut, a village in the hills about six miles inland from Morant Bay. A chapel belonging to him of small dimensions stood on his land, and was opened about Christmas, 1864. He was a member of the " Native Baptists," a sect so called as being independent of and distinguished from the London Baptist Mission. Mr. Gordon was an intimate friend and correspondent of Bogle. Mr. Gordon had himself become a Baptist, and had a Tabernacle of his own on the Parade at Kingston. To Paul Bogle he addressed a short note when about to become such member, as follows: "11th December, 1861. " Mr. Paul Boole, --I am to be baptized on Christina: Day, this day two weeks. Remember me on that day. G. W. GORDON." Aithough O. W. Gordon declared moat lolrmiily at hit trial, and clarwhat. fast Paul Bogle vat a atranger to him. On tho 2Gth February, 1864, Mr. Gordon wrote from Kingston to Paul Bogle at Stony Gut, as follows (infer alia): " Dear Boole, --Things are bad in Jamaica, and will require a great doal of purging." When Paul Rigln's house was searched in October, a list of ten uames was found there in tho handwriting of Mr. Gordon. Mr. Gordon's own name was at the head of this list, and tho nine other names were those of persons connected with Bogle's party. A much larger list of names, most of which were original signatures or marks, was afterwards taken from the privale...