's Laws, also Holmes's Annals, vol. i. p. 250.

[417] The following appeared in the Plantation Laws, printed in London
in 1705: "Where any negro or slave, being in servitude or bondage, is
or shall become Christian, and receive the sacrament of baptism, the
same shall not nor ought not to be deemed, adjudged or construed to be
a manumission or freeing of any such negro or slave, or his or her
issue, from their servitude or bondage, but that notwithstanding they
shall at all times hereafter be and remain in servitude and bondage as
they were before baptism, any opinion, matter or thing to the contrary
notwithstanding."

[418] McSherry's Hist. of Maryland, p. 86.

[419] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 249.

[420] McMahon's Hist. of Maryland, vol. i. p. 274.

[421] The following form was used for a long time in Maryland for
binding out a servant.

This Indenture _made the ---- day of ---- in the ---- yeere
of our Soveraigne Lord King_ Charles,_&c betweene ---- of
the one party_, and ---- on the _other party_, Witnesseth,
_that the said ---- doth hereby covenant promise, and grant,
to and with the said ---- his Executors and Assignes, to
serve him from the day of the date hereof, untill his first
and next arrivall in_ Maryland: _and after for and during
the tearme of ---- yeeres, in such service and imployment,
as the said ---- or his assignee shall there imploy him,
according to the custome of the Countrey in the like kind.
In consideration whereof, the said ---- doth promise and
grant, to and with the said ---- to pay for his passing, and
to find him with Meat, Drinke, Apparell and Lodging, with
other necessaries during the said terme; and at the end of
the said terme, to give him one whole yeeres provision of
Corne, and fifty acres of Land, according to the order of
the countrey. In witnesse whereof, the said ---- hath
hereunto put his hand and seate, the day and yeere above
written_.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of ----

--_Relation of the state of Maryland_, pp. 62, 63.

[422] Modern Traveller, vol. i. pp. 122, 123.

[423] McMahon's Maryland, vol. i. p. 278.

[424] 1st Pitkin's United States, p. 133.

[425] McMahone says of this convict element: "The pride of this age
revolts at the idea of going back to such as these, for the roots of a
genealogical tree; and they, whose de