[124] _Cf._ the numerous allusions to his negro woman made by Christopher Marshall in his Remembrancer. An entry in John Wilson's Cash Book (MS.), Apr. 27, 1770, says: "paid his" (Joseph Pemberton's) "Negro woman Market mony ... 7/6." The following advertisement is illustrative, although perhaps it reveals the advertiser's art as much as the excellence and reliability of the negress. "A likely young Negroe Wench, who can cook and wash well, and do all Sorts of House-work; and can from Experience, be recommended both for her Honesty and Sobriety, having often been trusted with the Keys of untold Money, and Liquors of various Sorts, none of which she will taste. She is no Idler, Company-keeper or Gadder about. She has also a fine, hearty young Child, not quite a Year old, which is the only Reason for selling her, because her Mistress is very sickly, and can't bear the Trouble of it." _Pa. Gazette_, Apr. 2, 1761. [125] "Thou Knowest Negro Peters Ingenuity In making for himself and playing on a fiddle w^{th} out any assistance as the thing in them is Innocent and diverting and may keep them from worse Employmt I have to Encourage in my Service promist him one from Engld therefore buy and bring a good Strong well made Violin w^{th} 2 or 3 Sets of spare Gut for the Suitable Strings get somebody of skill to Chuse and by it".... MS. Isaac Norris, Letter Book, 1719, p. 185. [126] See above, pp. 32-34. [127] "Our Negro woman got leave to visit her children in Bucks County." Christopher Marshall's Remembrancer, D, Jan. 7, 1776. "This afternoon came home our Negro woman Dinah." _Ibid._, D, Jan. 15, 1776. [128] Watson, _Annals_, I, 406. _Cf._ letter of William Hamilton of Lancaster: "Yesterday (being Negroes Holiday) I took a ride into Maryland." _Pa. Mag._, XXIX, 257. [129] For the treatment of William Edmundson when he tried to convert negroes in the West Indies, _cf._ his _Journal_, 85; Gough, _A History of the People Called Quakers_, III, 61. _Cf._ MS. Board of Trade Journals, III, 191 (1680). [130] Kalm, _Travels_, I, 397. "It's obvious, that the future Welfare of those poor Slaves ... is generally too much disregarded by those who keep them." _An Epistle of Caution and Advice, Concerning the Buying and Keeping of Slaves_ (1754), 5. This, however, is neglect rather than opposition. [131] Fox's _Epistles_, in _Friend's Library_, I, 79 (1679). [132] "An Exhortation and Caution to Friends Concerning buying or keeping of Negroes," in _Pa. Mag._, XIII, 267. [133] Proud, _History of Pennsylvania_, 423; Gordon, _History of Pennsylvania_, 114.