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Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910Turner, Edward Raymond

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Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910

Name: Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910
Author: Turner, Edward Raymond

Turner, Edward Raymond

African Americans -- Pennsylvania; Slavery -- Pennsylvania

[4] _2 Pa. Arch._, XVI, 255, 256; Hazard, _Annals of
       Pennsylvania_, 372. Sir Robert Carr, writing to Colonel
       Nicholls, Oct. 13, 1664, says, "I have already sent into
       Merryland some Neegars w^{c}h did belong to the late Governor
       att his plantation above".... _2 Pa. Arch._, V, 578.

   [5] The Records of the Court of New Castle give a list of the
       "Names of the Tijdable prsons Living in this Courts
       Jurisdiction" in which occur "three negros": "1 negro woman of
       Mr. Moll", "1 neger of Mr. Alrichs", "Sam Hedge and neger".
       Book A, 197-201. Quoted in _Pa. Mag._, III, 352-354. For the
       active trade in negroes at this time _cf._ MS. Board of Trade
       Journals, II, 307.

   [6] "Wth out wch wee cannot subsist".... MS. New Castle Court
       Records, Liber A, 406. Hazard, _Annals_, 456.

   [7] "Ik hebbe geen vaste Dienstbode, als een Neger die ik gekocht
       heb." _Missive van Cornelis Bom, Geschreven uit de Stadt
       Philadelphia_, etc., 3. (Oct. 12, 1684). "Man hat hier auch
       Zwartzen oder Mohren zu Schlaven in der Arbeit." Letter,
       probably of Hermans Op den Graeff, Germantown, Feb. 12, 1684,
       in Sachse, _Letters relating to the Settlement of Germantown_,
       25. _Cf._ also MS. in American Philosophical Society's
       collection, quoted in _Pa. Mag._, VII, 106: "Lacey Cocke hath
       A negroe" ..., "Pattrick Robbinson--Robert neverbeegood his
       negor sarvant".... "The Defendts negros" are mentioned in a
       suit for damages in 1687. See MS. Court Records of Penna. and
       Chester Co., 1681-1688, p. 72.

   [8] MS. Ancient Records of Philadelphia, 28 7th mo., 1702.

   [9] MS. William Trent's Ledger, 156. For numerous references to
       negroes brought from Barbadoes, see MS. Booke of acc^{tts}
       Relating to the Barquentine _Constant Ailse_ And^w: Dykes
       mast^r: from March 25th 1700 (-1702). (Pa. State Lib.)

  [10] _Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania_ (edited by J. T. Mitchell
       and Henry Flanders), II, 107. _Ibid._, II, 285. The act of
       1705-1706 was repeated in 1710-1711. _Ibid._, II, 383. _Cf._
       _Colonial Records of Pennsylvania_, II, 529, 530.

  [11] _Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the
       Province of Pennsylvania_, I, pt. II, 132. _Stat. at L._, II,
       433.

  [12] MS. Board of Trade Papers, Proprieties, IX, Q, 39, 42. _Stat.
       at L._, II, 543, 544.

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