Legislation regarding slave conspiracies and uprisings was general throughout the English colonies from an early date. In some of these acts Indian slaves were expressly mentioned. In others they were included by implication in the general term “slaves” or in the expression “negroes and other slaves”. Reference will be made to only those acts which include Indian slaves by express mention. A South Carolina act of 1690 related to Indian and negro slaves striking a white person.[1132] The Spanish Indians were evidently considered especially undesirable, for an act passed in 1722 stated that “the importation of Spanish Indians, mustees, negroes and mulattoes may be of dangerous consequence....”[1133] In 1703, Massachusetts passed “an act to prevent disorder in the night”. The preamble reads: “whereas great disorders, insolences and burglaries are oftimes raised and committed in the night time by Indian, negro and mulatto servants and slaves....”[1134] As late as 1769 Connecticut passed an act relating to any disturbance created by “any Indian, negro, or mulatto slave.”[1135] The murder by an Indian man slave and a negro woman of an entire white family in Queens County, New York, led to the passage of an act, October 30, 1708, to prevent the conspiracy of Indian and negro slaves.[1136] A Philadelphia ordinance, also, of July 3, 1738, dealt with “the tumultuous meetings and other disorderly doings of the negroes, mulattoes and Indian servants and slaves within the city”.[1137] A second class of colonial laws related to Indian slaves alone and show that in certain of the colonies the inhabitants, for definite reasons, feared the presence of too many Indian slaves among them. Such were the laws passed by the northern colonies at the time of the Tuscarora War, by which they sought by means of heavy duties to prevent the importation of such dangerous slaves.[1138] The preamble of the Massachusetts act of 1713, for example, reads: “Whereas divers conspiracies, outrages, barbarities, murders, burglaries, thefts and other notorious crimes and enormities, at sundry times, and especially of late, have been perpetuated and committed by Indian and other slaves within several of her majestie’s plantations in America, being of a malicious, surley and revengeful spirit, rude and insolent in their behaviour, and very ungovernable, the over-great number and increase whereof within this province is likely to prove of pernicious and fatal consequences to her majestie’s subjects and interest here unless speedily remedied, and is a discouragement to the importation of white Christian servants, this province being differently circumstanced from the plantations in the islands, and having great numbers of the Indian natives of the country within and about them, and at this time under the sorrowful effects of their rebellion and hostilities....”[1139] The Connecticut act passed in August, 1715, likewise for the purpose of