Fort the prevention and restraining of inhuman severities
which by evil masters or overseers, may be used towards
their Christian servants, that from and after the
publication hereof, if any man smite out the eye or tooth of
his man servant or maid servant, or otherwise maim or
disfigure them much, unless it be by mere casualty, he shall
let him or her go free from his service, and shall allow
such further recompense as the court of quarter sessions
shall adjudge him. 2. That if any person or persons whatever
in this province shall wilfully kill his Indian or negroe
servant or servants he shall be punished with death."[508]

There were slaves in New Hampshire down to the breaking-out of the war
in the colonies, but they were only slaves in name. Few in number,
widely scattered, they felt themselves closely identified with the
interests of the colonists.

FOOTNOTES:

[504] Belknap's Hist. of N.H., vol. i. p. 333.

[505] Hildreth, vol. i. p. 501.

[506] Gordon's Hist. of Am. Rev., vol. v. Letter 2.

[507] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 266.

[508] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 267.

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE COLONY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

1681-1775.

ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA.--THE SWEDES
AND DUTCH PLANT SETTLEMENTS ON THE WESTERN BANK OF THE
DELAWARE RIVER.--THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK SEEKS TO EXERCISE
JURISDICTION OVER THE TERRITORY OF PENNSYLVANIA.--THE FIRST
LAWS AGREED UPON IN ENGLAND.--PROVISIONS OF THE
LAW.--MEMORIAL AGAINST SLAVERY DRAUGHTED AND ADOPTED BY THE
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS.--WILLIAM PENN PRESENTS A BILL FOR THE
BITTER REGULATION OF SERVANTS.--AN ACT PREVENTING THE
IMPORTATION OF NEGROES AND INDIANS.--RIGHTS OF NEGROES.--A
DUTY LAID UPON NEGROES AND MULATTO SLAVES.--THE QUAKER THE
FRIEND OF THE NEGRO.--ENGLAND BEINGS TO THREATEN HER
DEPENDENCIES IN NORTH AMERICA.--THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA
REFLECT UPON THE PROBABLE OUTRAGES THEIR NEGROES MIGHT
COMMIT.

Long before there was an organized government in Pennsylvania, the
Swedes and Dutch had planted settlements on the western bank of the
Delaware River. But the English crown claimed the soil; and the
governor of New York, under patent from the Duke of York, sought to
exercise jurisdiction over the territory. On the 11th of July, 1681,
"Conditions and Concessions were agreed upon by William Penn,
Proprietar