[56] There is an evident distinction intended in the following: "A List of the Tydable psons James Sanderling and slave John Test and servant." One follows the other. MS. Rec. Court at Upland, Nov. 13, 1677. In 1686 the price of a negro, 30 pounds, named in a law-suit, is probably that of a slave. MS. Minute Book. Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Bucks Co., 1684-1730, pp. 56, 57. A will made in 1694 certainly disposed of the within mentioned negroes for life. "I do hereby give ... pow^r ... to my s^d Exers ... eith^r to lett or hire out my five negroes ... and pay my s^d wife the one half of their wages Yearly during her life or Oth^rwise give her such Compensa[~c]on for her int^rest therein as shee and my s^d Ex[~er]s shall agree upon and my will is that the other half of their s^d wages shall be equally Devided between my aforsd Children, and after my sd wife decease my will also is That the sd negroes Or such of them and their Offsprings as are then alive shall in kind or value be equally Devided between my s^d Children" ... Will of Thomas Lloyd. MS. Philadelphia Wills, Book A, 267. [57] MSS., Domestic Letters, 17. [58] "Know all men by these presents That I Patrick Robinson Countie Clark of Philadelphia for and in Consideration of the Sum of fourtie pounds Current Money of Pennsilvania ... have bargained Sold and delivered ... unto ... Joseph Browne for himselfe, ... heirs ex[~e]rs ad[~m]rs and assigns One Negro man Named Jack, To have and to hold the Said Negro man named Jack unto the said Joseph Browne for himself ... for ever. And I ... the said Negro man unto him ... shall and will warrant and for ever defend by these presents." MS. Philadelphia Deed Book, E, 1, vol. V, 150, 151. This is similar to the regular legal formula afterward. _Cf._ MS. Ancient Rec. Sussex Co., 1681-1709, Sept. 22, 1709. [59] See below, p. 65. [60] "And to buy Souls and Bodies of men for Money, to enslave them and their Posterity to the end of the World, we judge is a great hinderance to the spreading of the Gospel" ... "neither should we keep them in perpetual Bondage and Slavery against their Consent" ... _An Exhortation and Caution To Friends Concerning buying or keeping of Negroes_, reprinted in _Pa. Mag._, XIII, 266, 268. [61] "An Act for the better Regulation of Servants in this Province and Territories." _Stat. at L._, II, 56. [62] _Cf._ J. C. Ballagh, _A History of Slavery in Virginia_, chapter II. [63] _Cf._ letter of William Edmundson to Friends in Maryland, Virginia, and other parts of America, 1675. S. Janney, _History of the Religious Society of Friends, from Its Rise to the Year 1828_, III, 178.