We are presenting here this account from Emma Helen Blair's collection as it is in the archives of the University of Michigan digital library.
Page 2 of this document described Sumuroy and Don Juan Ponce as two different persons. Don Juan Ponce, married to a wife from Catubig, was the chief of the insurrection, the second leader was a Don Pedro Caamug, and the third leader a person they only called Sumuroy.
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The chief leader Sumoroy and his sorcerer father refused to put in an appearance, or to talk of peace. But the very ones whom he had caused to rebel killed him, and carried his head to Don Gines de Rojas, although they had been so loyal to him before that when the alcalde-mayor of Leite went at the beginning to reduce them to peace, and asked them as the first condition to deliver to him the head of Sumoroy, they, making light of the request, sent him the head of a swine. But afterward, as a token of their true obedience, they delivered the head, without any one asking for it. Don Juan Ponce remained in hiding in the island of Cebu for a long time, but after having obtained pardon he returned to Palapag; there he committed crimes that were so atrocious that the alcalde-mayor seized him and sent him to Manila, where he paid for those crimes on the scaffold. He who had the best end was Don Pedro Caamug; for he was the first to present himself, and showed great loyalty in the reduction of the others. He continued all his life to be very quiet, and was governor of his village, where he was highly esteemed; and it was proved that he was not the one who had killed Father Vicente with his hands, although he was captain of that band. Moreover, it was found to be advisable to overlook much on that occasion, as the quiet of all the Pintados Islands, who were awaiting the end of the rebels of Palapag, depended on it.
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of
the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions
of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 38]
Author: Blair, Emma Helen, ed. d.1911.
