Niles’ Register (Baltimore, Maryland),

October 29, 1831

“Gen. Nat.”—It is believed that this distinguished leader of the blacks at the massacre in Virginia, was drowned, in attempting to cross New River. So says a letter to the governor of the state.

Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), 131.