Daniel Horsmanden

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Daniel Horsmanden (born in Goudhurst, Kent, England, in 1691(?); died in Flatbush, New York, 28 September 1778)

He was one of the judges that tried the supposed conspirators in the Great Negro Plot of 1741. He was a Judge at the time.

He was called to the city council of New York, 23 May 1733, and was afterward recorder and chief justice from March, 1763, and also president of the council.

In 1773, he was appointed a commissioner to inquire into the burning of the king's ship "Gaspee" by a party of Whigs in the preceding year. [1]

In 1776, along with Oliver De Lancey and about one thousand other residents of the city and county of New York, he signed an address to Lord Howe.

He is buried in Trinity church yard.

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The New York conspiracy trials of 1741 : Daniel Horsmanden's Journal of the proceedings with related documents ISBN 0-312-40216-3
The trial of John Ury for being an ecclesiastical person, made by authority pretended from the See of Rome, and coming into and abiding in the province of New York, and with being one of the conspirators in the Negro plot to burn the city of New York, 1741
The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot:: with the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New-York in the Years 1741-2: Together with Several Interesting Tables Containing the Names of the White and Black Persons Arrested on Account of the Conspiracy, the Times of Their Trials, Their Sentences, Their Executions by Burning and Hanging, Names of Those Transported, and Those Discharged: With a Variety of Other Useful and Highly Interesting Matter. (1741-2; republished in 1810)
A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some White People, in Conjunction With Negro and Other Slaves, for Burning the City of New-York in America and Murdering the Inhabitants
"Letters to Governor Clinton" (1747).