[167] "Where As William Clark did buy ... An negor man Called and knowen by the name of black Will for and during his natrill Life; never the Less the said William Clark doe for the Incourigment of the sd neagor servant hereby promise Covenant and Agree; that if the said Black Will doe well and Truely sarve the said William Clark ... five years ... then the said Black Will shall be Clear and free of and from Any further or Longer Sarvicetime or Slavery ... as wittnes my hand this Thurteenth day of ... June Anno; Din; 1682." MS. Ancient Rec. of Sussex Co., 1681-1709, p. 116. [168] "My will is that my negroes John and Jane his wife shall be set free one month after my decease." Ashmead, _History of Delaware County_, 203. [169] "I give to ... my blacks their freedom as is under my hand already" ... MS. Will of William Penn, Newcastle on Delaware, 30th 8br, 1701. This will, which was left with James Logan, was not carried out. Penn's last will contains no mention of his negroes. He frequently mentions them elsewhere. _Cf._ MS. Letters and Papers of William Penn (Dreer), 29 (1689), 35 (1690); _Pa. Mag._, XXXIII, 316 (1690); MS. Logan Papers. II, 98 (1703). _Cf._ also Penn. MSS., Official Correspondence, 97. [170] _Col. Rec._, II, 120. [171] Jane "a free negro woman" ... MS. Rec. Christ Church, 46. [172] "Whereas 'tis found by experience that free negroes are an idle, slothful people and often prove burdensome to the neighborhood and afford ill examples to other negroes" ... "An Act for the better regulating of Negroes in this Province." _Stat. at L._, IV, 61. [173] "Our Ancestors ... for a long time deemed it policy to obstruct the emancipation of Slaves and affected to consider a free Negro as a useless if not a dangerous being" ... Letter of W. Rawle (1787), in MS. Rec. Pa. Soc. Abol. Slavery. [174] _Votes and Proceedings_, II, 336, 337. [175] "An Act for the better regulating of Negroes in this Province." _Stat. at L._, IV, 61 (1725-1726). [176] "This is however very expensive for they are obliged to make a provision for the Negro thus set at liberty, to afford him subsistence when he is grown old, that he may not be driven by necessity to wicked actions, or that he may be at anybody's charge, for these free Negroes become very lazy and indolent afterwards." Kalm, _Travels_, I, 394 (1748).