[162] _Mercury_, Apr. 18, 1723; _Packet_, July 16, 1778; _Gazette_, June 12, 1740; Feb. 4, 1775; Jan. 3, 1776; July 2, 1781; _Gazette_, Nov. 17, 1748; Feb. 21, 1775. "'Old Dabbo' an African Negro ... call'd here for some victuals.... He had three gashes on each cheek made by his mother when he was a child.... His conversation is scarcely intelligible"; MS. Diary of Joel Swayne, 1823-1833, Mar. 27, 1828. _Mercury_, Aug. 6, 1730; _Packet_, Aug. 26, 1779; _Gazette_, July 31, 1739-1740; _Mercury_, June 24, 1725; _Packet_, June 22, 1789; _Packet_, Dec. 31, 1778; _Gazette_, Sept. 10, 1741; July 21, 1779; Sept. 11, 1746; Oct. 16, 1776; July 30, 1747; May 14, 1747; Oct. 22, 1747; Aug. 30, 1775; Mar. 22, 1747-1748; July 24, 1776; Apr. 23, 1761; July 5, 1775; _Packet_, Jan. 26, 1779. [163] "My Dear Companion ... has really her hands full, Cow to milk, breakfast to get, her Negro woman to bath, give medicine, Cap up with flannels, as She is allways Sure to be poorly when the weather is cold, Snowy and Slabby. its then She gives her Mistriss a deal of fatigue trouble in attending on her." Ch. Marshall, Remembrancer, E, Mar. 25, 1779. "To Israel Taylor p order of the Com^s for Cureing negro Jack legg ... 4/10 To Roger Parke for Cureing negro sam ... /9/9." MS. William Penn's Account Book, 1690-1693, p. 8. A bill for £10 10 sh. 4d. was rendered to Thomas Penn for nursing and burying his negro Sam. Some of the items are very humorous. MS. Penn Papers, Accounts (unbound), Feb. 19, 1741. The bill for Thomas Penn's negroes, Hagar, Diana, and Susy, for the years 1773 and 1774, amounted to £5 5 sh. Penn-Physick MSS., IV, 253. An item in a bill rendered to Mrs. Margaretta Frame is: "To bleeding her Negro man Sussex ... /2/6." MS. Penn Papers, Accounts (unbound), June 5, 1742. St. John Crèvecoeur, _Letters_, 221. Masters were compelled by law to support their old slaves who would otherwise have become charges on the community. _Cf. Stat. at L._, X, 70; _Laws of Pa., 1803_, p. 103; _1835-1836_, pp. 546, 547. In very many cases, however, old negroes were maintained comfortably until death in the families where they had served. _Cf._ MS. Phila. Wills, X, 94 (1794). There are numerous instances of negroes receiving property by their master's wills. _Cf._ West Chester Will Files, no. 3759 (1785). For the darker side _cf._ Lay, _All Slave-Keepers Apostates_, 93.