t city. Those only will be brought from the island
who desire to return and their effects will be brought with them."

[31] Nicolay and Hay, _Complete Works_, II, p. 477.

[32] _Statutes at Large_, XIII, p. 352.

[33] Butler's _Reminiscences_, pp. 903-904.

LEMUEL HAYNES

Lemuel Haynes was born July 18, 1753, at West Hartford, Conn. He was a
man of color, his father being of "unmingled African extraction, and
his mother a white woman of respectable ancestry in New England." She
was then a hired girl in the employ of a farmer who had a neighbor to
whom belonged the Negro to whom the woman became attached. Haynes took
neither the name of his father nor of his mother, but probably that of
the man in whose home he was born. It is said that his mother, in a
fit of displeasure with her host for some supposed neglect, called her
child by the farmer's name. Mr. Haynes took the young mother to task,
and while yet the baby was but a few days old, she disappeared. As she
was the daughter of a Tolland County farmer, Mr. Haynes shielded the
family from disgrace by having the child take his name with that of
Lemuel which in Hebrew signifies "consecrated to God." The mother
never had anything to do with her child, and it is said she married a
white man, and lived a respectable life. Lemuel providentially met his
mother once in an adjoining town, at the house of a relative, fondly
expecting that he would receive some kind attentions from her. He was
sadly disappointed, however, for she eluded the interview. Catching a
glimpse of her at length when she was attempting to escape from him he
accosted her in the language of severe but merited rebuke.

Mr. Haynes kept Lemuel till he was five months old, and then had him
"bound out" to Deacon David Rose, of Granville, Massachusetts, a man
of singular piety. There Lemuel grew up, and lived for thirty-two
years. One condition of his indenture was that, in common with other
children, he should enjoy the usual advantage of a district school
education. Yet, as schools of that section were decidedly backward,
his early opportunities for instruction were very limited. Like other
farmer boys, however, he was instructed in the fundamentals of
education and the principles of religion. His duties often kept him
from school, or caused him to arrive at a late hour. Yet he said, "As
I had the advantage of attending a common school equal with other
children, I was early taught to read, to whic