nt a return of Negroes to Maclean and Maclean July 26, 1781,
and they sent it on to Haldimand: Clans and Campbell made returns
direct to Haldimand in August of the same year. Fortunately the
covering letters are extant as are the reports. There is also one
Negro, Abraham, reported in a Return of Rebel Prisoners in and about
Montreal as having been taken June 18, 1781; and, therefore, about a
year after Mrs. La Force's capture.[21]

"Of the fifty or more slaves named in this list," says Dr. T. W.
Smith, "nearly half were sold at Montreal, a few being carried by the
Indians and Whites to Niagara. The others were handed to their former
owners. 'Charles' 'taken at Balls Town making his escape out of a
window in Col. Gordon's house' was sold to the Rev. David C. DeLisle,
the Episcopal rector at Montreal, for L20 Halifax currency; Samuel
Judah, Montreal, paid L24 for 'Jacob' also a slave of Col. Gordon, a
rebel master, but for a Negro girl of the same owner he gave L60;
Nero, another of Col. Gordon's slaves, captured by a Mohawk Indian,
Patrick Langan sold to John Mittleberger of Montreal for L60; 'Tom'
was sold by Captain Thompson of Col. Butler's Rangers for L25 to Sir
John Johnson who gave him to Mr. Langan; and William Bowen, a Loyalist
owner, sold his recovered slave 'Jack' for L70 to Captain John
McDonell of the Rangers. 'William,' who was also sold for L30 to Mr.
McDonell and afterwards carried to Quebec, had been taken from his
master's house by Mohawk Indians under Captain John the Mohawk with a
wagon and horses which he had got ready to convey his mistress Mrs.
Fonda wife of Major Fonda to Schenectady ... another Negro man, name
unknown, was sold 'by a soldier of the 8th Regiment to Lieutenant
Herkimer of the Corps of Rangers, who disposed of him to Ensign
Sutherland of the Royal Regiment of New York.'"

Negroes were not the only victims of Indian raids. In 1782 Powell had
another experience, which is indicative of the practices of the
Indians during the Revolutionary War.[22] In his letter to the
Commissary of Prisoners at Quebec he wrote:

Montreal, 22 August, 1782.,

"Sir

I should make an Apology for the Liberty I take but that I
consider it a public Duty.

When you were here some time since, I am informed that mention
was made to you of a young female slave bought of the Indians by
a Mr. Campbell, a Publican of this Town, and that when yo