Westo, tribe, sell captives to English, 170; break treaty, 170; sell Indians to Carolina planters, 175; reduced in numbers, 287 Wethersfield, Indian slave in, 300 Wetmore, on opposition of owners to baptism of slaves, 273 Weymouth, kidnaps Indians, 155 Whipping, punishment, 262–263 Willard, Lieutenant, agreement of Massachusetts with, 222 Williams, Roger, on Indian slavery, 304; requests an Indian slave, 310 Winthrop, John, owns an Indian slave, 216; on number of free Indians, 248; obtains licenses to employ Indians, 292 Wisconsin, 27, 32, 38, 94 Yamasee, tribe, 30 Yanan, tribe, 33 Yaqui, tribe, enslaved, 54 Yazoo, tribe, enslave Shawnee, 173 Yeamans, Sir John, chosen by proprietors to succeed West as Governor, 174 Yoamaco, tribe, war with Susquehanna, 286 Yorke, solicitor-general of England, decides that baptism does not free slaves 275 Yuma, tribe, 30 VITA The author of this dissertation, Almon Wheeler Lauber, was born at Lawrenceville, St. Lawrence Co., New York, March 24, 1880. He was graduated from the New York State Normal School, Potsdam, New York, in 1900. During the academic year of 1900–1901 he was principal of the graded school at Lawrenceville, New York. In 1905, he was graduated from Syracuse University with the degree of Ph. B., and in the same year received the Ph. M. degree. During the three succeeding academic years he was instructor in history at George School, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. In 1908, he entered Columbia University where he pursued graduate work. His major subject was American History, and his minors were Constitutional Law and European History. He took courses in American History under Professors Shepherd, Osgood and Dunning; in Constitutional Law under Professor Burgess; and in European History under Professors Osgood, Robinson and Sloane. He was a member of seminars under Professors Shepherd, Osgood and Dunning. FOOTNOTES: [1] In Mexico, a certain community of Indians was named “Esclavos” by the Spaniards, because the Aztec rulers had drawn so largely upon them for slaves. Gage, _A New Survey of the West Indies_, third edition, ii, p. 414. [2] Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, Bureau of American Ethnology_, Bulletin 30, pt. ii, p. 599. [3] _Ibid._ [4] Fiske, _The Discovery of America_, i, p. 121; Prescott, _History of the Conquest of Mexico_, twenty-second edition, i, pp. 35, 41. See also Clavigero, _The History of Mexico_ (translated by Cullen), i, p. 157, ii, p. 154; Prescott, _op. cit._, i, pp. 63, 68, 147, 155, 168, 285; ii, pp. 82, 137. [5] See Neill, _History of Minnesota_, p. 85, for the case of an Indian who wanted to enslave his daughter’s murderer. Brickell, _The Natural History of North Carolina_, etc., p. 355, tells of Indians enslaving one another for theft until reparation was made.