[301] Slavery in Mass., p. 49. See, also, Drake's Boston, p. 441, note. [302] Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. viii. 3d Series, p. 337. [303] Slavery in Mass., p. 50. [304] Coll. Amer. Stat. Asso., vol. i. p. 586. [305] Douglass's British Settlements, vol. i. p. 531. [306] Drake, p. 714. I cannot understand how Dr. Moore gets 1,514 slaves in Boston in 1742, except from Douglass. His "1742" should read 1752, and his "1,514" slaves should read 1,541 slaves. [307] "There is a curious illustration of 'the way of putting it' in Massachusetts, in Mr. Felt's account of this 'census of slaves,' in the Collections of the American Statistical Association, vol. i. p, 208. He says that the General Court passed this order 'for the purpose of having an accurate account of slaves in our Commonwealth, _as a subject in which the people were becoming much interested, relative to the cause of liberty!_" There is not a particle of authority for this suggestion--such a motive for their action never existed anywhere but in the imagination of the writer himself!"--_Slavery in Mass_., p. 51, note. [308] Ancient Charters and Laws of Mass., p. 748. [309] Ibid. [310] Slavery in Mass., p. 61. [311] Hildreth, vol. ii. pp. 269, 270. [312] Drake's Boston, p. 574. [313] Spectator, No. 215, Nov. 6, 1711. [314] Slavery in Mass., p. 64. [315] "In the inventory of the estate of Samuel Morgaridge, who died in 1754, I find, 'Item, three negroes L133, 6_s._, 8_d._ Item, flax L12, 2_s._, 8.' "In the inventory of Henry Rolfe's estate, taken in April, 1711, I find the following, namely, 'Fifteen sheep, old and young L3, 15_s._ An old gun 2 An old Negroe man 10 0 -------- L13 7_s._'" --COFFIN, p. 188. [316] Slavery in Mass., pp. 64, 65. [317] Drake, 583, note. [318] Here is a sample of the sales of those days: "In 1716, Rice Edwards, of Newbury, shipwright, sells to Edmund Greenleaf 'my whole personal estate with all my goods and chattels as also _one negro man_, one cow, three pigs with timber, plank, and boards."--COFFIN, p. 337. [319] New-England Weekly Journal, No. 267, May 1, 1732. [320] A child one year and a half old--a nursing child sold from the bosom of its mother!--and _for life!_--COFFIN, p. 337. [321] Slavery in Mass., p. 96. Note. [322] Eight years after this, on the 22d of June, 1735, Mr. Plant records in his diary: "I wrote Mr. Salmon of Barbadoes to send me a Negro." (Coffin, p. 338.) It doesn't appear that the reverend gentleman was opposed to slavery! [323] Note quoted by Dr. Moore, p. 58. [324] Hildreth, vol. i. p. 44.