[470] _Rhode Island Historical Society Collections_, v, p. 170; _Rhode Island Historical Society Publications_, new series, i, p. 234. This same town meeting freed certain Indians and gave them the rights of inhabitants, and sentenced others to be shot for crime. _Early Records of Providence_, viii, p. 12. These Indian captives were carried to the port in a vessel belonging to Providence Williams, son of Roger Williams. Staples, _op. cit._, p. 172. [471] Roger Williams was a member of this committee. [472] _Rhode Island Historical Society Publications_, i, pp. 236–238; Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_, i, p. 425. For examples of indentures or bills of sale, and receipts returned to the committee, see _Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth_, pp. 430–433; vol. 01087 of the _Town Records of Providence_. See _Report of Record Commissioners on Providence Town Records_. [473] Richman, _Rhode Island, its Making and its Meaning_, ii, p. 192; _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England_, ii, p. 549. [474] Orcutt, _The History of the old Town of Derby, Connecticut_, p. lvii. [475] _Connecticut Colonial Records_, ii, p. 308. [476] _William and Mary College Quarterly_, viii, p. 165. [477] _Ibid._, viii, p. 165. [478] Hening, _The Statutes at Large_, etc., ii, pp. 346, 404. [479] Foote, _Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical_, first edition, p. 18. [480] Hening, _op. cit._, ii, pp. 404, 440; _Virginia Magazine of History_, ii, p. 173. This law is almost a literal transcript of Bacon’s law. [481] Ballagh, _A History of Slavery in Virginia_, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, extra volume xxiv, pp. 35, 50; Hening, _op. cit._, ii, pp. 346, 404. [482] Hening, _op. cit._, iv, p. 10. [483] _Ibid._, i, p. 259. [484] _Ibid._, i, p. 459. [485] Indians held in captivity before 1670 were not slaves but servants. See Chapter ix. [486] Before that time, the Indians had given little or no trouble, and the colony had never passed a militia act. [487] Every seventh man was to be pressed into service. William Fuller was appointed to command. [488] Allen, _A Calendar of Maryland State Papers_, i, p. 54. This appears to have been the only attempt made by Maryland to enslave Indian war captives. [489] _North Carolina Colonial Records_, i, p. 900; ii, p. iv. [490] _Ibid._, ii, p. 305. [491] _Ibid._, ii, pp. iv, 52; Williamson, _History of North Carolina_, i, p. 289. [492] _North Carolina Colonial Records_, ii, p. 45. [493] Rivers, _op. cit._, p. 132. [494] Lands were also given as reward for valor, but they were not acceptable for the people had no laborers to work them. Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 78. [495] Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 74. [496] Blackstone, _Commentaries on the Laws of England_, Lewis edition, 1898, i, p. 108. [497] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, ii, pp. 189, 212. [498] _Ibid._, ii, p. 212. [499] In 1703, Sir Nathaniel Johnson succeeded Moore as governor.