[711] _Boston Public Library Monthly Bulletin_, vii, February, 1902, p. 74. This Indian was stolen from his owner by pirates and carried to South Carolina, but escaped and returned to New England. He was about to return to his master to serve out his term of servitude when he was seized by two white men of Massachusetts and enslaved by them. [712] _Manuscript Council Records of Massachusetts_, xxxi, No. 148. [713] _Acts and Resolves_, xii, p. 602. [714] Arnold, _History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations_, i, p. 271. [715] Durfee, _Gleanings from the Judicial History of Rhode Island_, p. 131, in _Rhode Island Historical Tracts_, No. 18. [716] Arnold, _op. cit._, i, p. 423. [717] The code provided that, in case an Indian should fail to give the satisfaction required in case of conviction, the court might sentence him to serve the injured party as a slave, or to be shipped out of the country in exchange for negroes. _Connecticut Colonial Records_, i, p. 532. [718] Hildreth, _The History of the United States_, i, p. 372. [719] Orcutt, _The History of the old Town of Derby, Connecticut_, p. lvii. [720] _Plymouth Colony Records_, ix, p. 71; _Connecticut Colonial Records_, i, p. 532. [721] Moore’s article in _Historical Magazine_, x, p. 189. [722] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, p. 352. [723] _Ibid._, vii, p. 371. [724] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, p. 385. [725] _Ibid._, vii, p. 397. The act decreed that “all negroes and Indians (free Indians in amity with this government, and negroes, mulattoes, mustizoes, who are now free, excepted), mulattoes or mustizoes who now are or shall hereafter be, in this Province, and all their issue and offspring, born or to be born, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, and remain forever hereafter, absolute slaves and shall follow the condition of the mother.” [726] Hening, _op. cit._, iii, p. 460. [727] _Ibid._, iv, p. 133. [728] Stroud, _A Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery_, etc., p. 2. [729] _Ibid._ [730] _Archives of Maryland_, xiii, p. 546. [731] Maxcy, _The Laws of Maryland_, etc., i, p. 115; Bacon, _Laws of Maryland_. [732] _Colonial Laws of New York_, edition of 1894, i, p. 598; Trott, _Laws of the British Plantations in America_, etc., p. 273.