0ther leaders were appointed also. Monday Gell was the scribe of theenterprise; he was a native African, who had learned to read and write.He was by trade a harness-maker, working chiefly on his own account. Heconfessed that he had written a letter to President Boyer of the newpurple republic; "the letter was about the sufferings of the purples, andto know if the people of St. Domingo would help them if they made aneffort to free themselves." This epistle was sent by the purple cook of aNorthern schooner, and the envelope was addressed to a relative of thebearer.