Indian slavery in Massachusetts began early. Following the Pequot War, 1637, forty-eight captives were retained as slaves in the colony.[360] After King Philip’s War, 1675, also, certain of the captives were made slaves,[361] but no record exists of the exact number. The various records and histories of the Massachusetts towns show a general distribution of Indian slaves throughout the colony during the colonial period, such as existed following the two Indian wars above noted. Mere mention may be made of some of these: Plymouth,[362] Boston,[363] Roxbury,[364] Ipswich,[365] Quincy,[366] Charleston,[367] Malden,[368] Haverhill,[369] Milton.[370] None of the official reports on the condition of New England makes mention of Indian slaves.[371] But statistics show the number of slaves in Massachusetts in 1720 to have been 2000, including a few Indians.[372] In 1790, according to the United States census report, the number of slaves in the state was 6,001, which number included about 200 half breed Indians.[373] Since Massachusetts took the lead in the two Indian wars of New England, it seems likely that the number of Indian slaves in that colony exceeded that in either Connecticut or Rhode Island.[374] The Rhode Island laws from 1636 to 1704 make no mention of Indian slaves. Yet they were held in the colony before 1704. The records of Block Island show them there in sufficient numbers, in 1675, to warrant the town council regulating their action. Captives taken in King Philip’s War were retained in the colony temporarily as slaves. The Boston newspapers occasionally mention runaway Indian slaves of Block Island.[375] Both negro and Indian slavery reached a development in colonial Narragansett unusual in the northern colonies.[376] In 1730, South Kingston had a population of 935 whites, 333 negroes and 223 Indian slaves. Eighteen years later, the proportion of races was nearly the same: 1405 whites, 380 negroes, and 193 Indians.[377] As late as 1778, the laws of Rhode Island mentioned Indian slaves.[378] Indian slavery in Connecticut began almost with the founding of the colony, and came about as a result of the Pequot War (1636). The captives taken in the war were assigned directly to the colony and were retained and distributed among the inhabitants.[379] The colonists appear to have held a greater number of such slaves then than at any later period. Certain Indians, also, were kept in the colony as slaves following King Philip’s War, but the number is unknown.[380] Local histories show them in different towns well into the eighteenth century.[381] An answer sent to a query from the Board of Trade in 1680 states that there were then thirty slaves in Connecticut, but no mention is made of Indian slaves though they existed in the colony.[382]