John Ury (died 29 August 1741) was a Non-juring Anglican priest who was falsely accused of being a Catholic priest, a Spanish spy, and the mastermind of the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741. His ability to read Latin was cited as proof of this.

2022年10月31日 · One of the accused Catholics was John Ury, a schoolteacher. He was eventually identified as the mastermind behind the entire plot. 7. Critics of the trials have compared them to the Salem Witch Trials, in which the word of a young girl was taken as evidence and used to persecute — and execute — people …

In a city where suspicions of Catholics ran high, authorities came to focus on John Ury, an itenerant Catholic teacher, as the mastermind of the alleged plot involving the Spanish government and New York City's African-Americans.

people, John Ury, an alleged "Popish" priest, John Camp-bell, a school-master, and eighteen negroes had been hanged, seventy-one negroes banished and fourteen burned. John Ury was tried on the specific charge and indict-ment of being a Roman Catholic priest, and the evidence seemingly sustained the charge. Yet the evidence was un-doubtedly false.

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

Confessing slaves had made reference to a short white man who had the power to forgive their sins, a man that authorities immediately assumed must be a priest. On June 24, constable found their suspected priest, a recent arrival in the city named John Ury. Court records note that Ury came to the city "pretending to teach Greek and Latin ...

This led New York authorities to link this conspiracy to Spain and English schoolmaster John Ury. Ury, skilled in Latin and theology, faced the flimsiest testimony "proving" he was a Catholic priest and the real head of the conspiracy. This contradicted earlier claims that Hughson was the leader.

In 1741, authorities in New York City became convinced that John Ury, a white tutor, was secretly a Catholic priest and Spanish agent and was organizing a slave uprising.

2017年8月29日 · Colonial New York’s summer 1741 slave rebellion panic* drew to a close on this date with the execution of the alleged Catholic priest John Ury. The supposed plot to fire the city, whose reality and extent have been questioned ever since, had seen some 30 souls to the gallows and stakes these past four months after a suspicious series of fires ...

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 american catholic historical researches, vol. 16, no. 1 (january, 1899), pp. 1-58