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.  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.