[880] One of these Indians who became a slave in the family of Mr. Richard Calicott of Dorchester, was afterward the tutor of John Eliot when the latter was learning the Indian language in preparation for his missionary work. Winslow, _The Glorious Progresse of the Gospel among the Indians of New England_, etc., in _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series, 3, iv, p. 90; Tooker, _Cockenoe-de-Long-Island_, p. 12. [881] _Boston Gazette or Weekly Journal_, November 15, 1748. [882] _New England Weekly Journal_, March 5, 1733. [883] _Boston News Letter_, January 5, 1719. [884] _Boston News Letter_, November 15, 1708. [885] _Pennsylvania Gazette_, March 7 and March 16, 1732. [886] _American Weekly Mercury_, April 10, 1729. In 1715, Massachusetts granted an exception to the law against the importation of Indian slaves to a gentleman from South Carolina, so that his Indian slave attendant might accompany his family to Massachusetts. _Acts and Resolves_, ix, p. 412. [887] Ewell, _The Story of Byfield_, p. 88. [888] Channing, _The Narragansett Planters_, p. 10, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, iv. [889] _Boston News Letter_, March 11, 1717. [890] _Boston News Letter_, April 12, 1714. [891] _Boston News Letter_, May 24, 1714. [892] _Boston News Letter_, June 18 and June 25, 1724. [893] _Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, 1897–1898, p. 233. [894] Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 157. [895] _Boston News Letter_, March 21, 1715. [896] _Boston News Letter_, July 23, 1716. [897] _Boston Post Boy_, May 2, 1743. [898] _New York Gazette_, June 24, 1734. [899] Lawson, _A New Voyage to Carolina_, etc., p. 172. [900] _Public Records of South Carolina_, xxi, 1743–1744, p. 333; _B. P. R. O._, _S. C., B. T._, vol. xiii, H., p. 36. [901] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, p. 363. [902] _Ibid._, vii, p. 393. [903] _Ibid._, vii, p. 409. [904] Bacon, _Laws of Maryland_. [905] _Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York_, iv, p. 85. [906] _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 3, iv, p. 188. [907] _Calendar of State Papers_, colonial series, v, p. 361. [908] Northrup, _Slavery in New York_, in _New York State Library Bulletin, History_, 1900, No. 4. The French considered these slaves as spoils of war which became the property of the captors exactly as if they were guns or any other implements. They were sent to “Montinisco” (Martinique) and sold there for the benefit of the planters. [909] Northrup, _op. cit._, in _New York State Library Bulletin, History_, May, 1900, No. 4. [910] _Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York_, i, pp. 329, 354. [911] Porter, _Historical Notes of Connecticut_, No. 2, p. 13. [912] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, p. 347.