[99] Act _circa_ 1784; Trumbull, _Public Records_, 1665-1678. [100] Trott, Act of 1717. [101] _Laws of the Duke of York._ [102] Purdon, _Digest_, Act of 1700. [103] Act of 1704. [104] Browne, 1692; Dorsey, 1715. [105] Bacon, 1748. [106] Browne, 1692; Dorsey, 1715. [107] Bacon, 1748. [108] Iredell, Act of 1741. [109] Carey and Bioren, Act of 1700. [110] Trumbull, _Public Records_. [111] Acts of 1692 and 1715. [112] Act of 1692. [113] Connecticut, _circa_ 1784; New York, Act of 1672; Maryland, Acts of 1692, 1715. [114] Iredell, Act of 1741. [115] Act _circa_ 1784. [116] Act of 1646. [117] Trott, 1717; Massachusetts, Act of 1698. [118] Act of 1646. [119] Act of 1728. [120] Iredell, Act of 1741. But corporal punishment was not to deprive the master of such other satisfaction as he might be entitled to by the Act. [121] Act of 1717. [122] _Body of Liberties_, § 88, Act of 1672; _Laws of the Duke of York_. [123] Iredell, 1741. [124] Leaming and Spicer, Act of 1682. [125] Purdon, _Digest_, 1700. [126] Act _circa_ 1784. [127] Laws of 1672. [128] Act governing white servants, 1717. [129] _Laws of the Duke of York._ [130] Browne, 1692; Dorsey, 1715. [131] Leaming and Spicer, Acts of 1668, 1675; Trott, Act of 1717. [132] Massachusetts Bay, Act of 1636. [133] Carey and Bioren, Act of 1721. [134] Iredell, 1741. [135] _Ibid._ [136] Laws of 1672. [137] _Ibid._ [138] Iredell, 1741. [139] Act of 1636. [140] Act of 1784. [141] Neill, _Founders of Maryland_, pp. 77-79, gives the names of eighty servants brought over by Cornwallis between 1634 and 1651; and of these, five became members of the Assembly, one became a sheriff, and two were signers of the Protestant Declaration. Other noteworthy instances are found in Virginia. Neill, _Virginia Carolorum_, p. 297. Sometimes, however, the trail of the serpent remained. R. G., in a treatise published about 1661, says of the burgesses that they “were usually such as went over servants thither, and though by time, and industry, they may have attained competent estates, yet by reason of their poor and mean condition, were unskilful in judging of a good estate, either of church or Commonwealth, or by the means of procuring it.”—_Virginia Carolorum_, p. 290. George Taylor, a Pennsylvania redemptioner, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. [142] The Sot-Weed Factor describes a quarrel in which one says: “... tho’ now so brave, I knew you late a Four-Years Slave; What if for Planter’s Wife you go, Nature designed you for the Hoe.”—P. 21. DeFoe says: “When their Time is expir’d, sometimes before it, (they) get marri’d and settl’d; turn Planters, and by Industry grow rich; or get to be Yearly Servants in good Families upon Terms.”—_Behaviour of Servants_, p. 140.