History

All Information below, courtesy of: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/westmoreland-slave-plot-1687/ SUMMARY The Westmoreland slave plot of 1687 involved an alleged conspiracy uncovered by Nicholas Spencer, who claimed that the participants intended to kill whites and destroy property in the county and throughout Virginia. Preceded by the Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663) and Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677), the Westmoreland plot was the first conspiracy in British Nor

https://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=77368 Westmoreland’s Negro Revolutionary War Troops     Nathan Fry     Bennett McCoy     George McCoy     James McCoy     Joshua Payne     Road Marker Placed for: ► Virginia (Westmoreland County), Grays Corner — JT-20 — McCoy Revolutionary Soldiers Bennett and James McCoy, free men (probably brothers) from Westmoreland County, were among the many African Americans who served in the Virginia militia and the United States Army or N