[500] In a letter to the governor of South Carolina, May 1, 1704, Moore states that he has taken all the people of three towns, and the greatest part of four more, and that he has with him thirteen hundred free Apalachee Indians and one hundred slaves. Carroll, _op. cit._, ii, pp. 574–576. [501] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, ii, pp. 322, 325. [502] _Ibid._, ii, p. 637. [503] Martin, _The Public Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina_, etc., edition of 1804, p. 135. If such an Indian should be killed, the captor was to secure £10 from the public treasury. This amount was probably less than the regular price of such slaves, for if the amount were equal to the full value, the captor would have been tempted to kill the captive, and thus avoid the trouble of keeping him. Bassett, _Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina_, p. 73, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, xiv. [504] _North Carolina Colonial Records_, xiii, pp. 204–205, contains a letter of President Lowndes of South Carolina to Governor Caswell of North Carolina, August 6, 1778, concerning the adjustment of this matter. As late as 1776 Cherokee prisoners of war were sold to the highest bidder in South Carolina, _Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, p. 223; Basset, _op. cit._, p. 73, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, xiv. [505] Hoadly, _Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the Union_, etc., p. 177. [506] _Plymouth Colony Records_, ix, p. 4. [507] _Ibid._, ix, p. 35. [508] _Plymouth Colony Records_, v, p. 173. [509] _Ibid._, v, p. 174. [510] _Ibid._, v, p. 173; ix, p. 401. [511] _Ibid._, xi, p. 242. [512] Shurtleff, _op. cit._, v, p. 115. [513] Baylies, _op. cit._, ii, pt. iii, p. 75. [514] Hough, _op. cit._, pp. 188–189. It is to be noted that none of the Indians transported were allowed to return to the colonies. This same court, on rumors of Indians landing near the coast of Rhode Island, forbade the landing of any Indian on the shores of Rhode Island or Narragansett Bay. Hough, _op. cit._, p. 189. [515] See Sylvester, _op. cit._, ii, p. 457, for expedients adopted by Massachusetts to obtain money to defend the frontiers. Yet the number killed and sold, along with those who escaped, practically destroyed the warring Indians. According to the Massachusetts Records of 1676–1677 a day was set apart for public thanksgiving, because, among other things of moment, “there now scarce remains a name or family of them (the Indians) but are either slain, captivated or fled.”