[22] _House Journal_, 1771, pp. 211, 215, 219, 228, 234, 236, 240, 242-3; Moore, _Slavery in Massachusetts_, pp. 131-2. [23] Felt, _Annals of Salem_ (1849), II. 416-7; Swan, _Dissuasion to Great Britain_, etc. (1773), p. x; Washburn, _Historical Sketches of Leicester, Mass._, pp. 442-3; Freeman, _History of Cape Cod_, II. 114; Deane, in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, 5th Ser., III. 432; Moore, _Slavery in Massachusetts_, pp. 135-40; Williams, _History of the Negro Race in America_, I. 234-6; _House Journal_, March, 1774, pp. 224, 226, 237, etc.; June, 1774, pp. 27, 41, etc. For a copy of the bill, see Moore. [24] _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 1855-58_, p. 196; Force, _American Archives_, 5th Ser., II. 769; _House Journal_, 1776, pp. 105-9; _General Court Records_, March 13, 1776, etc., pp. 581-9; Moore, _Slavery in Massachusetts_, pp. 149-54. Cf. Moore, pp. 163-76. [25] Moore, _Slavery in Massachusetts_, pp. 148-9, 181-5. [26] Washburn, _Extinction of Slavery in Massachusetts_; Haynes, _Struggle for the Constitution in Massachusetts_; La Rochefoucauld, _Travels through the United States_, II. 166. [27] Moore, _Slavery in Massachusetts_, p. 225. [28] _Perpetual Laws of Massachusetts, 1780-89_, p. 235. The number of slaves in Massachusetts has been estimated as follows:-- In 1676, 200. Randolph's _Report_, in _Hutchinson's Coll. of Papers_, p. 485. " 1680, 120. Deane, _Connection of Mass. with Slavery_, p. 28 ff. " 1708, 550. _Ibid._; Moore, _Slavery in Mass._, p. 50. " 1720, 2,000. _Ibid._ " 1735, 2,600. Deane, _Connection of Mass. with Slavery_, p. 28 ff. " 1749, 3,000. _Ibid._ " 1754, 4,489. _Ibid._ " 1763, 5,000. _Ibid._ " 1764-5, 5,779. _Ibid._ " 1776, 5,249. _Ibid._ " 1784, 4,377. Moore, _Slavery in Mass._, p. 51. " 1786, 4,371. _Ibid._ " 1790, 6,001. _Ibid._ [29] _R.I. Col. Rec._, I. 240. [30] Cf. letter written in 1681: _New England Register_, XXXI. 75-6. Cf. also Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_, I. 240. [31] The text of this act is lost (_Col. Rec._, IV. 34; Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_, II. 31). The Acts of Rhode Island were not well preserved, the first being published in Boston in 1719. Perhaps other whole acts are lost. [32] E.g., it was expended to pave the streets of Newport, to build bridges, etc.: _R.I. Col. Rec._, IV. 191-3, 225. [33] _Ibid._, IV. 55-60. [34] Patten, _Reminiscences of Samuel Hopkins_ (1843), p. 80. [35] Hopkins, _Works_ (1854), II. 615. [36] Preamble of the Act of 1712. [37] _R.I. Col. Rec._, IV. 131-5, 138, 143, 191-3. [38] _R.I. Col. Rec._, IV. 471.