Early in September, 1800, as a certain Mr. Moseley Sheppard, of HenricoCounty in Virginia, was one day sitting inside his counting-room, two negroesknocked at the door, and were let in. They shut the door themselves, andbegan to unfold an insurrectionary plot, which was subsequently repeatedby one of them, named Ben Woodfolk or Woolfolk, in presence of the court,on the 15th of the same week.