. of
sugar, amounting to L911 77_s._ 21/2_d._, received bills on
Liverpool for the balance, and returned in safety to Rhode
Island. He had done so well that he was immediately given a
new ship and sent to Africa again. _American Historical
Record_, I. 315-9, 338-42.

[9] _Ibid._, I. 316.

[10] _American Historical Record_, I. 317.

[11] _Ibid._, I. 344; cf. Weeden, _Economic and Social History
of New England_, II. 459.

[12] Cf. _New England Register_, XXXI. 75-6, letter of John
Saffin _et al._ to Welstead. Cf. also Sewall, _Protest_, etc.

[13] The number of slaves in New Hampshire has been estimated
as follows:

In 1730, 200. _N.H. Hist. Soc. Coll._, I. 229.
" 1767, 633. _Granite Monthly_, IV. 108.
" 1773, 681. _Ibid._
" 1773, 674. _N.H. Province Papers_, X. 636.
" 1775, 479. _Granite Monthly_, IV. 108.
" 1790, 158. _Ibid._

[14] _N.H. Province Papers_, IV. 617.

[15] _Granite Monthly_, VI. 377; Poore, _Federal and State
Constitutions_, pp. 1280-1.

[16] Cf. _The Body of Liberties_, Sec. 91, in Whitmore,
_Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts
Colony_, published at Boston in 1890.

[17] _Mass. Col. Rec._, II. 168, 176; III. 46, 49, 84.

[18] Weeden, _Economic and Social History of New England_, II.
456.

[19] _Mass. Province Laws, 1705-6_, ch. 10.

[20] _Ibid._, _1728-9_, ch. 16; _1738-9_, ch. 27.

[21] For petitions of towns, cf. Felt, _Annals of Salem_
(1849), II. 416; _Boston Town Records, 1758-69_, p. 183. Cf.
also Otis's anti-slavery speech in 1761; John Adams, _Works_,
X. 315. For proceedings, see _House Journal_, 1767, pp. 353,
358, 387, 390, 393, 408, 409-10, 411, 420. Cf. Samuel Dexter's
answer to Dr. Belknap's inquiry, Feb. 23, 1795, in Deane
(_Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, 5th Ser., III. 385). A committee on
slave importation was appointed in 1764. Cf. _House Journal_,
1763-64, p. 170.

[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.