Some idea of the relative values attached to Indian and negro slaves may be obtained by a comparison of the prices for which they were sold. In Massachusetts, for instance, record exists of the sale of an Indian man slave in Newbury, in 1649, for “the quarter part of a vessel”.[1181] Sewall records that on July 1, 1676, nine Indians were sold for £30.[1182] An inventory of 1690, on the other hand, appraised a single negro at £30.[1183] In the inventory of an estate in Ipswich, in 1683, “Lawrence ye Indian” was valued at £4.[1184] In the same town £5 was paid for an Indian boy and girl.[1185] The Reverend Mr. Thacher of Milton, in 1674, paid £5 down and £5 more at the end of the year for an Indian woman slave.[1186] An Indian girl brought £15 at Salem in 1710;[1187] whereas in the case of a cargo of negroes brought into Boston in 1727, as high as £80 was paid per head.[1188] In the settlement of an estate in Newbury, an Indian slave was valued at an early date at £20.[1189] In 1708, a South Carolina Indian boy was sold for £35.[1190] In 1713, a Spanish Indian boy was sold in the same town for £38.[1191] In 1725, a negro was sold in Newbury for £100, and three other negroes were valued at £132 6s. 8d. in colonial currency.[1192] In 1708, an Indian was sold at Salem for £32.[1193] An Indian girl was sold in the same town in 1710 for £15.[1194] A negro was appraised in the same town at £40.[1195] In 1764, a negro woman was sold for £8 13s. 4d.[1196] In Byfield a negro was listed in the inventory of an estate in 1689 at £60.[1197] A negro given to Cotton Mather in 1706 was purchased at an expense of £40 or £50.[1198] An Indian boy was valued in Boston in 1721 at £20, and an Indian girl at £10.[1199] In Rhode Island the prices of Indian slaves were lower than those already mentioned, for here the Indians were sold into slavery for limited periods only. The average price at which Indians “great and small” were sold in the colony, was about thirty-two shillings. Some of the lot brought into Rhode Island at the close of King Philip’s War sold for twelve bushels of Indian corn, some for £2 10s. in silver, some for 100 pounds of wool, one for three fat sheep, two for twenty-two bushels of Indian corn.[1200] One sold in 1677 at Portsmouth for £4 10s.[1201] Indian slaves appear among other effects in the probate inventories. They were appraised at £8 and £10 each, while negroes were valued at from £60 to £80,[1202] with an average price of £50 for an able negro man and £40 for a woman.[1203] That is, a negro laborer was reckoned as the equivalent of five or six Indians.[1204] In 1718, three Indian children were worth £23.[1205] An inventory in 1723 valued the two years and ten months’ service of an Indian girl at £5.[1206]