[356] Glenn, _A Description of South Carolina_, etc., p. 81; _Charleston Year Book_, 1883, p. 407. (A quotation from a pamphlet entitled, “The Importance of the British Plantations in America to this Kingdom,” London, 1731). [357] Dalcho, _An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina_, p. 287; Humphreys, _An Historical Account of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts_, etc., edition of 1730, pp. 103–105. As the result of the intermingling of negroes and Indians, which came about when the coast tribes dwindled and the small number of remaining members moved inland, associated and intermarried with the negroes until they finally lost their identity and were classed with that race, a considerable portion of the blood of the southern negroes is unquestionably Indian. _Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, 1897–1898, p. 233. It was these mixed bloods, as well as the pure blood Indians, to which the statutes referred by the terms “Indian slaves” and “mustee,” or “mestee,” slaves. Occasional mention is made in the colonial newspapers of slaves of the mixed red and black races. _American Weekly Mercury_, October 24, 1734. The opinion has even been advanced that, in certain of the colonies, there never were any pure blood Indian slaves. Mr. W. B. Melius of Albany, New York, asserts; “I do not believe the pure Indian was sold as a slave (in New York), I believe the Indian who was the slave was not without mixture.” _New York State Library Bulletin, History_, No. 4, May, 1900. One instance of the mixture of the Indians and negroes in New York is found in a complaint made in 1717, that negro slaves ran away, and were secreted by the Minisink with whose women they intermarried. _Ibid._, No. 4, May, 1900. [358] _Colonial Records of the State of Georgia_, vi, p. 259, mentions an Indian slave in 1749. [359] Howe, _Historical Collections of Virginia_, etc., p. 134. [360] Winthrop, _Journal History of New England_, i, p. 225, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_. [361] See Chapter V. [362] “It seems probable that there were no Indian slaves in Plymouth before the division of land in 1623.” _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 4, iii, p. 114. [363] _Boston News Letter_ and other newspapers. [364] Ellis, _The History of Roxbury Town_, p. 136. [365] Felt, _The History of Ipswich_, pp. 306, 320; _Boston Weekly Mercury_, October 2, 1735. [366] Wilson, _Where American Independence Began_, p. 154. [367] Corey, _The History of Malden_, p. 416. [368] _Ibid._ [369] Chase, _The History of Haverhill_, pp. 239, 248. [370] Earle, _Customs and Fashions in Old New England_, p. 84.