[147] "Acco^t of Negroes Dr. ... for my Negroe Cuffee and his Wife Rose and their Daughter Jenny bo^t of W^m Banloft ... 76/3/10." MS. James Logan's Account Book, 90 (1714). "Wanted, Four or Five Negro Men ... if they have families, wives, or children, all will be purchased together." _Pa. Packet_, Aug. 22, 1778. _Cf._ also _Mercury_, June 4, 1724; June 21, 1739; _Independent Gazeteer_, July 14, 1792. _Cf._ however, Benezet, _Some Historical Account of Guinea_, 136; Crawford, _Observations upon Negro Slavery_ (1784), 23, 24; _Pa. Packet_, Jan. 1, 1780. [148] This was not always the case. The MS. Rec. of Sandy Bank Cemetery, Delaware Co., contains the names of two negroes. [149] MS. Minutes Middletown Monthly Meeting, 2d Book A, 171, 558, 559; _Pa. Mag._, VIII, 419; Isaac Comly, "Sketches of the History of Byberry," in _Mem. Hist. Soc. Pa._, II, 194. There were exceptions, however. _Cf._ MS. Bk. of Rec. Merion Meeting Grave Yard. [150] Bean, _Hist. Montgomery Co._, 302; Martin, _Hist. of Chester_, 80; Kalm, _Travels_, I, 44; _Pa. Gazette_, Nov. 15, 1775. [151] _Stat. at L._, IV, 59; _Col. Rec._, II, 18; 1 _Pa. Arch._ XI, 667; _Mercury_, Apr. 12, 1739; _Phila. Staatsbote_, Jan. 16, 1764, _Pa. Gazette_, Nov. 12, 1761. For an instance of a slave killing his master, _cf._ MS. Supreme Court Papers, XXI, 3546. This was very rare. _Pa. Mag._, XIII, 449. According to Judge Bradford's statement arson was "the crime of slaves and children." _Journal of Senate of Pa., 1792-1793_, p. 52; _Col. Rec._, IV, 243, 244, 259; XII, 377; MS. Miscellaneous Papers, Feb. 25, 1780. _Cf._ especially MS. Records of Special Courts for the Trial of Negroes; _Col. Rec._, IX, 648; MS. Streper Papers, 55. [152] In 1737 the Council spoke of the "insolent Behaviour of the Negroes in and about the city, which has of late been so much taken notice of".... _Col. Rec._, IV, 244; _Votes and Proceedings_, IV, 171. As to pilfering Franklin remarked that almost every slave was by nature a thief. _Works_ (ed. Sparks), II, 315. [153] The following has not lost all significance. "I was much Disturbed after I came our girl Poll driving her same stroke of Impudence as when she was in Philad^a and her mistress so hood-winked by her as not to see it which gave me much uneasiness and which I am determined not to put up with".... Ch. Marshall, Remembrancer, D, Aug. 4, 1777. _Cf._ also _Remarks on the Quaker Unmasked_ (1764). [154] As shown by the very careless enforcement of the special regulations. [155] Except immediately following the negro "insurrection" in New York in 1712. _Cf. Stat. at L._, II, 433; 1 _Pa. Arch._, IV, 792; 2 _Pa. Arch._, XV, 368.