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1783.  A set of vindictive rebels, known by the designation of Monmouth retaliators, associated and headed by one general Forman, whose horrid acts of cruelty gained him universally the name of Black David.—W. Gordon, ‘Hist. Am. Revol.,’ iv. 287 (Lond., 1788). (Italics in the original.)

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