Militia
Capture & Trial of Rebels
Gov. Floyd’s Diary, Sept. 1831
Reward for Nat Turner, Sept. 17
Receipt of Nat Turner, Oct. 31
Execution of Nat Turner, Nov. 11
Certificate for the Execution of Nat Turner
I certify that I executed the within
named slave Nat according
to the sentence of the Court.
Edwd Butts dpty of
Clements Rochelle Shff.
From Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), p. 427.
