t to his native country in Ginny, & a letter w'th him of y'e
indignation of y'e Corte thereabout, and iustice hereof, desiring o'r
hono'red Gov'rnr would please put this order in execution."

How men so clear in their convictions of the rights of Africans could be
guilty of the most heartless injustice to Quakers and their friends, it
is not easy to explain; and yet they mercilessly persecuted one of their
own fellow-citizens, Nicholas Upsall, and made him an exile from his
home, for no greater crime than that of countenancing and befriending
members of the Society of Friends. He kept the Dorchester hostelry, and
was wont to entertain Quakers as he did any other decent people; but for
this he was apprehended and tried by the court, and sentenced to pay a
fine of L20 and be thrown into prison. Finally, finding it impossible to
entirely prevent his friends from holding intercourse with him, he was
banished from the settlement for the remainder of his life. That curious
book, "Persecutors Maul'd with their own Weapons," contains the
following account of the case:

"Nicholas Upsall, an old man full of years, seeing their (the
authorities) cruelty to the harmless Quakers that they had condemned
some of them to die, both he and elder Wisewell, or otherwise Deacon
Wisewell, members of the church in Boston, bore their testimonies in
public against their brethren's horrid cruelty to the said Quakers. And
the said Upsall declared that he did look at it as a sad forerunner of
some heavy judgment to follow upon the country; which they took so ill
at his hands, that they fined him twenty pounds and three pounds more at
another meeting of the court, for not coming to their meeting, and would
not abate him one grote, but imprisoned him and then banished him on
pain of death, which was done in a time of such extreme bitter weather
for frost, snow and cold, that had not the heathen Indians in the
wilderness woods taken compassion on his misery, for the winter season,
he in all likelihood had perished, though he had then a good estate in
houses and lands, goods and money, also a wife and children."

One of the officials who for a time had charge of poor Upsall during the
period of his imprisonment was John Capen, of whom the old chroniclers
have left a pleasanter record, namely, a transcript of several of his
youthful love-letters. The following will serve as sample:

"SWEETE-HARTE,

"My