res; the Canadian 36.34 litres or
63.94 pints--the bushel is 64 pints--the Canadian minot is
consequently almost exactly one bushel.

[39] _Essex Historical Society--Papers and Addresses_, Vol. 1,
Windsor, Ont. (1913), pp. 13, 39, 48-52.

This is translated thus: I certify that I have sold and delivered to
Mr. Labodie a Panis slave called Manon for and in consideration of 80
minots (practically 80 bushels) of wheat which he is to pay me as he
has it the coming spring--given under my hand at Detroit this 10th day
of October, 1775.

WITNESS: (Signed)
(Signed) JOHN PORTEOUS. JAMES STERLING."

[40] The fact was that Jack York had broken into McKee's dwelling
house to commit rape and he had committed rape on the person of Mrs.
Ruth Sufflemine (or Stufflemine).

Powell's report is dated from Mount Dorchester, September 22, 1800.
_Canadian Archives, Sundries U.C. 1792-1800_; Hunter's decision in May
is in _Canadian Archives Letters Hunter to Heads of Departments_, p.
65; York's escape is _ibid._, p. 84; the Death Warrant is referred to
in _Canadian Archives Sundries U.C. 1792-1800_.

There were certainly slaves in the Western District. The will of
Antoine Louis Descomps Labadie made May 26, 1806, contains a bequest
"I also give and bequeath to my wife Charlotte, the use or service of
two slaves that she may select as long as she continues to be my
widow." "A black boy slave to Mrs. Benton, widow of the late Commodore
of the Lakes" seems to have been as bad as Jack York. Convicted at
Kingston of a house robbery, a capital crime he had the "benefit of
clergy" that is, set free as a first offence. But he did not mend his
ways. He committed burglary and was convicted at Kingston 1795 before
Mr. Justice Powell. The judge sentenced him to be hanged but
recommended a pardon. He said the boy was said to be 17 but looked no
more than 15 and in view of his education as a slave he hoped that his
"would not be the first capital example." _Can. Arch._, B. 210.

[41] In a memorial by the judges of the Court of King's Bench to the
Lieutenant Governor, January 10, 1814, they point out that prices have
doubled since the war. The prices before the war and at the time were
of bread 1/ and 2/; of beef 6 d and 1/; of wood 7/6 and 15/.

[42] Before 1772, this was not a crime at all but only a civil
trespass; the Waltham Black Act (1722) 9 George I, c. 22 made it a
felony punishabl