A letter
from Volhynia says, "The Bishop of the [Orthodox] Greeks has been
massacred by the Peasants of tyhe Ulraine, for having given notice to the
Governor of Pawalocz and Lieutenant of the designs of our Insurgents by which
means they got out of there way. The Governor of Sinila flew off in his shirt,
abandoning his wife and children to their fury, Gentry, Ecclesiasticks, United
Greeks &c. have all been murdered by those rebels, who spare neither women
nor children. The rebels have already murdered many thousan Jews; they burn all
their books and papers, destroy their habitations, and carry off their
provisions. It is afforded, that the cause of these disorders, that the
confederates of Bar threaten to murder those old Greeks unless they embrace the
Roman Catholic religion.[1]
[1] The
ESSEX GAZETTE; From Tuesday, October 11, to Tuesday, October 18, 1768; Salem, Massachusetts.
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. March 5, 2014.
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