Henry Richards Cassin

Dr Henry Richards Cassin was a witness at the trial of Edward Huggins senior in 1810 for the flogging of enslaved people. Cassin was at the flogging in his capacity as plantation doctor to Huggins' enslaved people, and had intervened once, after one of the enslaved men had received 236 lashes.

1. Henry Richards Cassin has an expressive entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 22) at CAIUS, 1792. S. of Michael. B. in the Island of Nevis, West Indies. School, Bristol (Mr Lewis). Matric. Michs. 1792. Returned to the West Indies, and practised physic. Of St Nevis, M.D. Married Catherine Watts, widow of Thomas Watts, E.I.C.S., at St John's, Antigua, July 29 (? May 30), 1819. Poisoned, together with his wife and eight children, by a black servant, when on a voyage to England. (Venn, II. 125, where date of death is not given.)

Cassie later expressed contrition for his passivity, https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/mountravers~part2chapter7.pdf pp.784-791.

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online].