Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United StatesLauber, Almon Wheeler
History
Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United States
Lauber, Almon Wheeler
Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of -- United States; Slavery -- United States; Thesis (Ph. D.)
_Calendar of Historical Manuscripts_, etc., pt. i, p. 295.
[387] Van Rensselaer, _History of the City of New York in the
Seventeenth Century_, i, p. 193.
[388] Brodhead, _History of the State of New York_, revised edition, i,
p. 193.
[389] _Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island_,
ii, p. 60.
[390] Northrup, _Slavery in New York_, in _New York State Library
Bulletin, History_. No. 4, May, 1900, p. 305.
[391] _Ibid._ Note that April 27, 1699, Bellomont reported to the Lords
of Trade: “They have no other servants in this country but negroes.”
[392] O’Callaghan, _Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of
the Secretary of State, Albany, New York_, pt. ii, p. 314.
[393] _New York Historical Society Collections_, 1892, i, p. 413.
[394] _New York Colonial Documents_, v, p. 433.
[395] Scharf, _History of Westchester County_, etc., ii, p. 667.
[396] _Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York_, iv, p. 2357;
Dix, _History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York_,
i, p. 203.
[397] _New York Colonial Documents_, vi, p. 546.
[398] O’Callaghan, _Documentary History of New York_, ii, p. 984;
_Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Collections_, xxx, p. 596.
[399] _New York Gazette_, July 23, 1733 (a runaway Indian slave from
Flushing); March 3, 1734 (a runaway Indian slave from Westchester);
February 13, 1739 (a runaway slave from New York City). _New York
Weekly Mercury_, October 27, November 3, and November 10, 1740 (a
runaway Indian slave from New York); August 16, 1756 (a runaway Indian
slave from Long Island); May 30 and June 13, 1757 (a runaway Indian
slave from “the mines near Second River”); June 12, June 19, June
26, July 3, 1758 (a runaway Indian slave from Newcastle, Westchester
County).
[400] The Delaware Indians had been conquered by the Iroquois, and so
humbled that they were glad to accept the friendship of the Quakers
and live in peace. Parkman, _The Conspiracy of Pontiac_, etc., sixth
edition, i, p. 82.
[401] _The Pennsylvania Gazette_, April 20, 1737, October 5, 1738,
March 16, 1731. _The American Daily Mercury_, March 24, 1720; May 24,
1726; August 28, 1729; July 30, 1730; August 16, 1733; July 8, 1771,
_The Pennsylvania Journal_, June 18, 1726.
[402] Scharf, _History of Delaware_, i, p. 180; Smith, _History of
Delaware County, Pennsylvania_, p. 219.
[403] Martin, _Chester and its Vicinity_, p. 189.
[404] Smith, _History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania_, p. 335;
Martin, _Chester and its Vicinity_, p. 189; Futhey and Cope, _History
of Chester County, Pennsylvania_, etc., p. 424. The registration was
made in accordance with the terms of the act of 1780, which provided
for the registration of all negro and mulatto slaves and servants for
life.
[405] _Report of the Friends’ Yearly Meeting of Pennsylvania and the
Jersies, from the 19th to the 24th of the 7th month, 1719_, p. 211.
[406] Lee, _New Jersey as a Colony and as a State_, i, p. 199.
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