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.