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List of Black Hole Victims
Date transcribed | 2016-07-17 | Transcribed by | A Barnett | Comment | LIST OF BLACK-HOLE VICTIMS* [*Communicated by the writer to the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, July 1899]
20th-21st, 1756
Being the lists given by Holwell in the Epitaph shown in his plate of the Black-Hole Monument and in an Appendix to his GENUINE NARRATIVE revised and with the Christian Names added of the deceased's estate in 1757 & 1758 [in cases where the documents could not be found, April 1899, the references have been supplied from the official Index]
NOTE
Ep - Epitaph.
Apx - Appendix
E S - Calcutta Mayors Court, Ecclesiastical Suits The numbers following these initials are those endorsed on petitions, etc, relative to the administration |
| Surname | Caulker | | Rank/title | Monsieur | | Section/ Page | Appendix D/xvi | | Notes | Who, with sundry other Inhabitants Military and Militia to the Number of 123 Persons, were by the Tyrannnic Violence of Surajud Dowla, Suba of Bengal, Suffocated in the Black Hole Prison of Fort William in the Night of the 20th June 1756, and promiscuously thrown the succeeding Morning into the Ditch of the Ravelin of this Place. This Monument is Erected By their Surviving Fellow Sufferer J Z HOLWELL - Epitaph |
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