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_, § 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.