[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.

 [39] Arnold, History of Rhode Island, II. 304, 321, 337.  For
      a probable copy of the bill, see Narragansett Historical
      Register, II. 299.

 [40] A man dying intestate left slaves, who became thus the
      property of the city; they were freed, and the town made the
      above resolve, May 17, 1774, in town meeting:  Staples, Annals
      of Providence (1843), p. 236.

 [41] R.I.  Col.  Rec., VII. 251-2.

 [42] Bartlett’s Index, p. 329; Arnold, History of Rhode
      Island, II. 444; R.I.  Col.  Rec., VIII. 618.

 [43] R.I.  Col.  Rec., X. 7-8; Arnold, History of Rhode
      Island, II. 506.

 [44] Bartlett’s Index, p. 333; Narragansett Historical
      Register, II. 298-9.  The number of slaves in Rhode Island has
      been estimated as follows:—­

      In 1708, 426. R.I.  Col.  Rec., IV. 59.
       " 1730, 1,648. R.I.  Hist.  Tracts, No. 19, pt. 2, p. 99.
       " 1749, 3,077.  Williams, History of the Negro Race in America,
                         I. 281.
       " 1756, 4,697. Ibid.
       " 1774, 3,761. R.I.  Col.  Rec., VII. 253.

[45] Fowler, Local Law, etc., p. 124.

[46] The number of slaves in Connecticut has been estimated as
follows:—­

In 1680, 30. Conn.  Col.  Rec., III. 298.
" 1730, 700.  Williams, History of the Negro Race in America,
I. 259.
" 1756, 3,636.  Fowler, Local Law, etc., p. 140.
" 1762, 4,590.  Williams, History of the Negro Race in America,
I. 260.
" 1774, 6,562.  Fowler, Local Law, etc., p. 140.
" 1782, 6,281.  Fowler, Local Law, etc., p. 140.
" 1800, 5,281. Ibid., p. 141.

[47] Conn.  Col.  Rec., XIV 329.  Fowler (pp. 125-6) says that
the law was passed in 1769, as does Sanford (p. 252).  I find
no proof of this.  There was in Connecticut the same Biblical
legislation on the trade as in Massachusetts.  Cf. Laws of
Connecticut (repr. 1865), p. 9; also Col.  Rec., I. 77.  For
general duty acts, see Col.  Rec., V 405; VIII. 22; IX. 283;
XIII. 72, 125.

 [48] Acts and Laws of Connecticut (ed. 1784), pp. 233-4.