[213] The small number of negroes in Pennsylvania was often noticed. Burnaby, _Travels through the Middle Settlements_, 63, said "there are few negroes or slaves" ... (1759), Anburey, _Travels through the Interior Parts of America_, II, 280-281, said, "The Pennsylvanians ... are more industrious of themselves, having but few blacks among them." (1778). _Cf._ Proud, _History_, II, 274. Estimates as to the number of Germans in Pennsylvania vary from 3/5 (1747, _cf._ Rupp's note in Rush, _Account_, 1) to 1/3 (1789, _ibid._, 54). For many estimates _cf._ Diffenderffer, _German Immigration into Pennsylvania_, pt. II, _The Redemptioners_, 99-108. Some few Germans had intended to hold slaves from the first. _Cf._ the articles of agreement between the members of the Frankfort Company (1686): ... "alle ... leibeigenen Menschen ... sollen unter Allen Interessenten pro rato der Ackerzahl gemein seyn." MS. in possession of S. W. Pennypacker, Philadelphia. [214] Watson, (MS.) Annals, 530. The same spirit is apparent much later. "There generally appeared an uneasiness in their minds respecting them, tho all are not so fully convinced of the Iniquity of the practice as to get over the difficulty which they apprehend would attend their giving them their liberty" ... MS. Abstract Rec. Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, 278 (1770). "Perhaps thou wilt say, 'I do not buy any negroes: I only use those left me by my father.' But is it enough to satisfy your own conscience?" Benezet, _Notes on the Slave Trade_, 8. [215] _Votes and Proceedings_, II, 110; _The Friend_, XXVIII, 293, and following; A. C. Thomas, "The Attitude of the Society of Friends toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Particularly in Relation to Its Own Members," in _Amer. Soc. Church History_, VIII, 273, 274. [216] "Ralph Sandiford C^r for Cash receiv'd of Benj^a Lay for 50 of his Books which he intends to give away ... 10" (sh.) MS. Benjamin Franklin's Account Book, Feb. 28, 1732-1733. [217] Sandiford, _Mystery of Iniquity_, 43; Vaux, _Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford_; _The Friend_, L, 170; Thomas, _Attitude_, 274; Franklin, _Works_ (ed. Sparks), X, 403. [218] _Cf. American Weekly Mercury_, Nov. 2, 1738, for notice in which the Friends' Meeting denounces his _All Slave-Keepers ... Apostates_ (1737). _Cf._ anecdotes related by Vaux; Bettle, _Notices_, 375, 376; _The Friend_, L, 170; Thomas, _Attitude_, 274. [219] Bettle, _Notices_, 378-382; Thomas, _Attitude_, 245, 275-279; Tyler, _Literary History of the American Revolution_, II, 339-347; _The Friend_, LIII, 190; Woolman, _Journal_.