[671] _Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania_, ii, p. 236; _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, ii, p. 213; Bolles, _Pennsylvania, Province and State_, ii, p. 172. [672] An Indian boy was said to have been imported into the colony in 1708 contrary to the law. The matter was brought before the council, September 14, 1709, but was referred for lack of evidence. _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, ii, p. 490. It was perhaps due to this event that the council, February 21, 1710, decided that a case of infringement of the act of 1706 should be tried before the Court of Common Pleas. _Ibid._, ii, pp. 508–509. [673] This was the first effort to restrain negro slavery in Pennsylvania. It was introduced into the assembly in the form of a petition by William Southeby, a resident of Maryland and a Roman Catholic. In 1696 he wrote papers against slavery. For a sketch of his life, see the article by Nathan Kite in vol. xxviii of _The Friend_, pp. 293, 301, 309. [674] _Laws of Pennsylvania collected_, etc., 1714, p. 165; _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, ii, pp. 550, 553; _Pennsylvania Statutes at Large_, ii, p. 433; _Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania_, ii, pp. 112, 114; _Pennsylvania Historical Society Memoirs_, i, p. 389. [675] Burge, _Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws_, i, p. 737; Gordon, _History of Pennsylvania_, p. 166. [676] Lawson, _The History of North Carolina_, p. 351, tells of Indians selling an Indian thief to the governor. [677] Livermore, _A History of Block Island_, p. 60, mentions an instance of an Indian sold by his brothers for ten gallons of rum; and a second instance when another Indian was sold by his brothers and sisters for a term of thirteen years, for thirty gallons of rum and four cloth coats, the rum to be paid in annual instalments of one gallon each. The Indian was to have his board and clothing and two suits of apparel at the expiration of his bondage. _Ibid._, p. 60. [678] Green, _Springfield_, etc., p. 153, quotes a deed for land, 1665, in which an Indian girl is given by her parents as security for payment. [679] Williamson, _The History of North Carolina_, i, p. 95; Lawson, _op. cit._, pp. 73, 74; Hawks, _History of North Carolina_, second edition, ii, p. 73. [680] Williamson, _op. cit._, p. 95. [681] _New York Colonial Documents_, v, p. 433. [682] _Hening_, _op. cit._, i, p. 410. [683] _Ibid._, i, p. 396. [684] _Ibid._, i, p. 455. [685] _Virginia Historical Society Collections_, new series, i, p. 125. (This probably refers to the act of 1666). [686] _Acts and Resolves_, i, p. 436. [687] _Ibid._, ii, p. 104.