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The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to be Such when Read Before the Court of Southampton; With the Certificate, Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, For His Trial. Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection.Turner, Nat

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The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to be Such when Read Before the Court of Southampton; With the Certificate, Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, For His Trial. Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection.

Name: The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to be Such when Read Before the Court of Southampton; With the Certificate, Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, For His Trial. Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection.
Author: Turner, Nat

Turner, Nat

Southampton Insurrection, 1831; Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831

presses her infant darling to her bosom, will shudder at the
recollection of Nat Turner, and his band of ferocious miscreants.

Believing the following narrative, by removing doubts and conjectures
from the public mind which otherwise must have remained, would give
general satisfaction, it is respectfully submitted to the public by
their ob't serv't,

                                                           T.R. GRAY.
_Jerusalem, Southampton, Va. Nov. 5, 1831._


We the undersigned, members of the Court convened at Jerusalem, on
Saturday, the 5th day of Nov. 1831, for the trial of Nat, _alias_ Nat
Turner, a negro slave, late the property of Putnam Moore, deceased, do
hereby certify, that the confessions of Nat, to Thomas R. Gray, was read
to him in our presence, and that Nat acknowledged the same to be full,
free, and voluntary; and that furthermore, when called upon by the
presiding Magistrate of the Court, to state if he had any thing to say,
why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, replied he had
nothing further than he had communicated to Mr. Gray. Given under our
hands and seals at Jerusalem, this 5th day of November, 1831.
                                            JEREMIAH COBB,   [_Seal_.]
                                            THOMAS PRETLOW,  [_Seal_.]
                                            JAMES W. PARKER, [_Seal_.]
                                            CARR BOWERS,     [_Seal_.]
                                            SAMUEL B. HINES, [_Seal_.]
                                            ORRIS A. BROWNE, [_Seal_.]


_State of Virginia, Southampton County, to wit_:

I, James Rochelle, Clerk of the County Court of Southampton in the State
of Virginia, do hereby certify, that Jeremiah Cobb, Thomas Pretlow,
James W. Parker, Carr Bowers, Samuel B. Hines, and Orris A. Browne,
esqr's are acting Justices of the Peace, in and for the County
aforesaid, and were members of the Court which convened at Jerusalem, on
Saturday the 5th day of November, 1831, for the trial of Nat _alias_ Nat
Turner, a negro slave, late the property of Putnam Moore, deceased, who
was tried and convicted, as an insurgent in the late insurrection in the
county of Southampton aforesaid, and that full faith and credit are due,
and ought to be given to their acts as Justices of the peace aforesaid.
                          In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
                                 hand and caused the seal of the Court
                   [Seal.]    aforesaid, to be affixed this 5th day of
                                                       November, 1831.
                                           James Rochelle, C.S.C.C.




CONFESSION.


Agreeable to his own appointment, on the evening he was committed to
prison, with permission of the jailer, I visited NAT on Tuesday the 1st
November, when, without being questioned at all, he commenced his
narrative in the following words:--

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