[15] The group brought over in 1638 by Menefie was an unusually large number: "Menefie was now the leading merchant. On April 19, 1638, he entered 3,000 acres of land on account of 60 transports, of whom 23 were, as he asserts, 'negroes, I brought out of England.'" _Virginia Carolorum_, p. 187 note; Ballagh, _White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia_, p. 91 note. [16] "Intended insurrections of negroes in 1710, 1722, 1730, bear witness to their alarming increase...." _White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia_, p. 92 note. [17] Brackett, _The Negro in Md._, p. 38. [18] Bassett, _Slavery and Servitude in the Col. of N. C._, pp. 18-20. [19] Henry, _Police Control of the Slave in S. C._, p. 3. [20] Post, p. 262, note 10. [21] Turner, _The Negro in Penn._, pp. 1-3. [22] Moore, _Notes on the History of Slavery in Mass._, pp. 5, 48; Palfrey, _Hist. of N. E._, p. 30. [23] "They have store of children, and are well accommodated with Servants;----of these some are English, others Negroes: of the English there are can eat till they sweat, and work till they freeze; and of the females they are like Mrs. Wintus paddocks, very tinder fingered in cold weather." _Account of Two Voyages to N. E._, pp. 28, 139-140. [24] Moore, _Notes on the Hist. of Slavery in Mass._, pp. 48-49. [25] Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Virginia_, pp. 2, 3, 34. [26] "The main ideas on which servitude was based originated in the early history of Virginia as a purely English colonial development before the other colonies were formed. The system was adopted in them with its outline already defined, requiring only local legislation to give it specific character...." (Ballagh, _White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia_, p. 9.) The status of servitude, customary and legal, similar to that given the Negroes in Virginia is as a rule met with in several of the colonies. [27] Post, p. 254, note 33. [28] Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, pp. 28, 29, 34. [29] White servitude had recognition in statute law by 1630-36 in Massachusetts, by 1643 in Connecticut, by 1647 in Rhode Island, by 1619 in Virginia, by 1637 in Maryland, by 1665 in North Carolina, by 1682 in Pennsylvania, and by 1732 in Georgia. Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, pp. 36, 37. Russell, _The Free Negro in Va._, pp. 18, 19, 22, 29. [30] Statutory recognition of slavery by the American colonies occurred as follows: Massachusetts, 1641; Connecticut, 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, 1700; North Carolina, 1715; and Georgia, 1755. Prior to these dates the legal status of all subject Negroes was that of servants, and their rights, duties, and disabilities were regulated by legislation the same as, or similar to, that applied to white servants. Ballagh, _Hist. of Servitude in Va._, pp. 34, 35. [31] Russell, _The Free Negroes in Va._, p. 29.