The next move, as revealed by the records, is the sale (June 13, 1711) of Joan and her children “for their natural life” to John Livingston (a prominent attorney); one of the children “a boy of three years named John,” the other “a girl of six months,” to all of whom Samuel Beebe says he “has full right by judgment of court, viz., for the woman and one negro she had with her when she came” (that is, when, in some way, he secured her) “and the youngest born since.” Captain James Rogers appears to be as much opposed as his brother John to keeping persons in lifelong bondage.[111] James, Jr., will take any legal action yet possible to rescue Joan and her children. Footnote 111: In his own large inventory is no mention of any slaves. Among other things, outspoken dissent to certain state church doctrines and usages will be far less prominent with John Rogers behind the bars. Popular opinion appears to have proven unfavorable to continued persecution on religious grounds, ever since John, Jr., went “up and down the colony” selling that little book. The case regarding Joan has been a fortunate happening for Governor Saltonstall and his friends. Although, by the sentence, the trial for contempt was to be before the Superior Court at New Haven in October, we find it taking place at a session of this court in New London, September 25, in the meeting-house.[112] Footnote 112: In lieu of other suitable accommodation in New London this edifice continued to be used, for some time, for sessions of this court.—(For John Roger’s account of this trial, see Part I., Chapter V.) John Rogers asks to be tried by a jury, choosing the one then sitting, but Judge Saltonstall denies him trial by jury,—John Rogers has too many friends in these parts. There must be no means of escape for the opponent he has so often bled before, and would fain bleed to the death. He pronounces judgment in a fine of £20 and costs of prosecution, and a bond of £100 “for good behavior” until the March session of the same court, with imprisonment at prisoner’s expense,—unless he give surety for the bond, which Gurdon Saltonstall well knows he will not do, thereby to acknowledge that he has been “misbehaving” himself. All this is (by the court record) because John Rogers “falsely and slanderously declared in court that the sentence of said court against himself and John Jackson was ‘rebellion against her Majesty.’”