[1029] Poore, _The Federal and State Constitutions. Colonial Charters_, etc., ii, pp. 1407, 1408. [1030] Trott, _Laws of the British Plantations in America_, etc., p. 17. [1031] Ramage, _Local Government and Free Schools in South Carolina_, p. 12, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, i. [1032] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, vii, pp. 364–365. [1033] Hening, _op. cit._, i, p. 410. [1034] _William and Mary College Quarterly_, vi, p. 215; Hening, _op. cit._, ii, p. 155. [1035] Hening, _op. cit._, ii, p. 260. [1036] _Ibid._, ii, p. 283. [1037] _Ibid._, ii, p. 491. The testimony of the Reverend Hugh Jones, chaplain of the Virginia assembly, shows that the colonists, even after such legislative action, did not approve of the baptizing of Indians and negroes as they thought it made them proud and not so good servants. Jones, however, declared that these objections could be easily refuted “if the persons be sensible, good and understand English, and have been taught (or are willing to learn) the principles of Christianity and if they be kept to the observance of it afterward, for Christianizing encourages and orders them to become more humble and better servants and not worse than when they were heathen.” Jones, _The Present State of Virginia_, in Sabin’s _Reprints_, No. 5, p. 70. [1038] Trott, _Laws of the British Plantations in America_, etc., p. 142. [1039] The parish register of St. Peters, New Kent County, Virginia, 1680–1787. pp. 53 and 64, mentions the deaths of two Indian slaves in 1722 and 1723, but records no births or marriages. [1040] _Archives of Maryland_, xiii, p. 505. [1041] _Ibid._, xix, p. 32. [1042] Bacon, _Laws of Maryland_. [1043] _Ibid._ [1044] Trott, _op. cit._, p. 257. [1045] Morgan, _Slavery in New York_, in _Historic New York_, i, p. 8. [1046] _New York Colonial Documents_, iii, p. 415. [1047] Brodhead, _op. cit._, first edition, ii, p. 486. This act merely confirmed previous legislation in 1680. [1048] _Ibid._, first edition, ii, p. 509. This confirmed the legislation of the previous year. [1049] _Ibid._, first edition, ii, p. 510. [1050] _New York Colonial Documents_, iv, p. 510. [1051] Morgan, _op. cit._, in _Historic New York_, ii, p. 20; _Laws of New York_, edition of 1752, p. 69. [1052] Morgan, _op. cit._, in _Historic New York_, ii, p. 20. [1053] Bolton, _History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the County of Westchester_, p. 228. [1054] _Ibid._, p. 250. [1055] _Ibid._, p. 264. The slaves in New York, as in other colonies, did not favor giving up their Sundays to religious instruction and observances, for they preferred to hunt and fish on this, the only day which they had to themselves. _Ibid._, pp. 62–63. [1056] Shurtleff, _Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay_, v, p. 136. [1057] Mayhew, _Indian Converts_, p. 194. [1058] _Ibid._, pp. 202, 222, 257. [1059] _Plymouth Colony Records_, ii, pp. 103–104; _Medford Historical Register_, iii, No. 3, p. 121.