But a milder sentiment, urged by the authority of the leaders, or enforced, perhaps, by the neighborhood of Maroons, at length prevailed; &. a suppliant crowd repaired to the Governor's quarters, to learn their fate from the mouth of their Conqueror. They implored, & experienced, (he clemency they had so little reason to expect: peace was grrinted to them; & they were soon convinced, by the liberal distribution of reward & piinishment, that the friendship of their masters was preferable to their enmity. About ninety white persons were the victims of this rebellion: -- of the rebels more than four hunilred were slain; -- many destroyed themselves in the woods; -- & about six hundred were transported to the Bay of Honduras."
After the conclusion of ihese troubles Lt. Gov. Moore proceeded to England, where his energetic suppression of the Rebellion of the Slaves and his good government of Jamaica, procured for him a Baronetcy on the 29th Jany., 1764, and the appointment of Governor of New York in July following. He filled the latter office until his death, which occurred on the llth September, 1769. He left two children, a son and a daughter. The former. Sir Jno. H. Moore, succeeded to t le title, but dying without issue in 1780 the Baronetcy became extinct. The Arms are, Ermine, three greyhounds courant sa. Crest, a Moorcock holding in the beak a branch of heath ppr. The family, it is supposed, w^ere originally from Leicestershire.
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