"[2] Albert J. Menendez identifies Ury as a Non-juring High Church Anglican Vicar who supported the House of Stuart's claim to the British throne and opposed the Glorious Revolution of 1689.
In her initial statement of April 22, Mary Burton, the prosecution's main witness, testified that the Hughsons and Margaret Kerry were the only whites involved.
At this time James Ogelthorpe, founder and governor of Georgia, sent word to Prosecutor Joseph Murray that he had information that the Spanish were planning a secret attack on the British colonies: Some intelligence I had of a villainous design of a very extraordinary nature and, if true, very important, viz.
that the Spaniards had employed emissaries to burn all the magazines and considerable towns in the English North America, thereby to prevent the subsisting of the great expedition and fleet in the West Indies.
"[6]Oglethorpe's letter left little doubt that the colony was part of an international conspiracy, one which not only planned to infiltrate and destroy the city of New York, but also to engage its Protestant citizens in religious warfare.