To think of Beverhout's remonstrance as clumsy in its expression is to mistake patois for incoherence. It is, in fact, eloquent, both of deeply held grievances and of a budding understanding of political rights andremedies. More than that, it is impossible to read its conditional acceptance of Clarkson's executive power and the repeated allegiance to the laws of England without seeing the document as a chapter in the long transatlantic history of liberty.
C. Fyfe, History of Sierra Leone.
p. 44] ...Henry Beverout [sic.], captain of a company and Methodist preacher, born free in St. Croix Island, whom he [Clarkson] suspected of having been under Peters' s indluence, he won round by making him Church Clerk. ... [Ref. Colnial Williamsburg - British Headquarters Papers; John Clarkson Diary, 21 May 1792 (Fyfe had owned, but sold by 1962).
p. 56] ... Beverout went to the Rio Pongas, but the Muslims he preached to were unimpressed by his roaring style of oratory. ...
p. 103] ...
German missionaries followed Nicol's example .. Nyländer married Phillis Hazeley. She died after a few months and he subsequently married her successor as schoolmistress, Ann Beverout, one of the Methodist preachers family. Her sister Frances, once Tilly's mistress at Bance Island, married the Rev. Charles Wenzel whose Eorpean wife had died in childbirth at the Rio Pongos. ...
p. 145] ... In 1823, Matthew Tilley, a son of the former Bance Island agent by one of the Beverouts ..., took charge with the title King's Printer.
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