|
Jane | | | ditto |
Hager | | | ditto |
Nicholas | | |With his master. |
Tom | | | ditto |
Peter | | | ditto |
Maria | | | ditto |
------------+------------------+--------+-----------------------------+

[10] Since dead--All these marks for Sir John Johnson Joyned him on
the Mohawk.

[11] Sold by a Soldier of the 8th Regt to Lieut Harkemer of the Corps
of Rangers, who sold him to Ensign Sutherland of the Rl Rt N. Y.

[12] Sent a Prisoner to Fort Chambly--The Indians still claim the
allowance promised them by ye Commandr in Chief.

JOHN JOHNSON,
Lieut Col Comm.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See this Treaty which was concluded at Paris, February 10, 1763
"au Nom de la Tres Sainte & indivisible Trinite, Pere, Fils & Saint
Esprit"--Shortt & Doughty, _Constitutional Documents_, 1759-1791, pp.
73 sqq.

[2] What we now call Lake Nipissing.

[3] See the Proclamation, Shortt & Doughty, _Const. Docs._, pp. 119,
sqq.

[4] Per Hargrave, _arguendo_, Somerset _v._ Stewart (1772), Lofft 1,
at p. 4; the speech in the State Trials Report was never actually
delivered.

[5] (1772) Lofft, 12 Geo. III, 1; (1772) 20 St. Trials 1.

[6] These words are not in Lofft or in the State Trials, but will be
found in Campbell's _Lives of the Chief Justices_, Vol. II, p. 419,
where the words are added: "Every man who comes into England is
entitled to the protection of the English law, whatever oppression he
may heretofore have suffered and whatever may be the color of his
skin. _Quamvis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses_ and certainly
Vergil's verse was never used to a nobler purpose. Verg. E. 2, 19.

William Cowper in _The Task_, written 1783-1785, imitated this in his
well-known lines:

"Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free.
They touch our country and their shackles fall."

[7] I use the spelling in Lofft. The State Trials and Lord Campbell
have "Somersett" and "Steuart."

[8] This was in direct opposition to the opinion of Sir Philip Yorke,
Attorney General