[44] White's _Historical Collections of Georgia_, p. 316; Benedict's _History of the Baptists_ (edition 1848), p. 740. Compare with Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793, p. 545. Benedict's _History of the Baptists_, edition 1848, p. 727, note 5, shows no white minister was present except Abraham Marshall, and he says here he "assisted in the constitution of the church, and the ordination of the minister." [45] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_ (edition 1813), Vol. II, p. 193. [46] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 332. [47] Hervey's _Story of Baptist Missions in Foreign Lands_, pp. 611-612; Cox's _History of the British Baptist Missionary Society_, 1792-1842, p. 12. Phillipo, _Jamaica, Past and Present_; E. K. Love's _History First African Baptist Church_, p. 35; Brown, _Propagation of Christianity among Heathen_, Vol. II, p. 94. [48] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 336, and compare Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, pp. 476, 481-483. [49] _Ibid._, 1791, p. 344. [50] _Ibid._, 1791, p. 336. [51] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_ (edition 1813), Vol. II, p. 206. [52] James M. Simm's _The First Colored Baptist Church in North America_, p. 15. [53] "Andrew Bryan, and his brother Sampson, who was converted about a year after Andrew was, were twice imprisoned and they with about fifty others, without much ceremony, were severely whipped. Andrew was inhumanly cut and bled abundantly; but while under their lashes he held up his hands and told his persecutors that he rejoiced not only to be whipped but would _freely suffer death_ for the cause of Christ." _Baptist Home Missions in America_, 1832-1882, Jubilee Volume, p. 388. [54] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_, edition 1848, p. 170. Compare with p. 723. [55] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793, p. 545. [56] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793-1801, p. 367. Compare with Clark's letter, 1790-1793, p. 540. THE NEGROES IN MAURITIUS[1] Mauritius was discovered by the Portuguese in 1505 and remained in their possession until 1598, when it was ceded to the Dutch, who gave it the name by which it is now known. Aside from erecting a fort at Grand Port, however, the Dutch did no more for the development of the colony than the Portuguese. The Dutch finally abandoned it in 1710 when the island was taken over by the French. Under the French the island was considerably developed, especially during the second half of the eighteenth century, and this new step, as the majority saw it, necessitated the introduction of slavery. During the Napoleonic Wars Mauritius was captured by England and was formally ceded by France in 1814.