st Encyclopedia_, Vol. I, p. 49.

[40] James M. Simm's _First Colored Baptist Church in North America_,
p. 57.

[41] _Ibid._, pp. 58-59.

[42] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_, edition 1813, Vol. II, p.
193, quoted from Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_.

[43] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 336.

[44] White's _Historical Collections of Georgia_, p. 316; Benedict's
_History of the Baptists_ (edition 1848), p. 740. Compare with
Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793, p. 545. Benedict's _History
of the Baptists_, edition 1848, p. 727, note 5, shows no white
minister was present except Abraham Marshall, and he says here he
"assisted in the constitution of the church, and the ordination of the
minister."

[45] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_ (edition 1813), Vol. II, p.
193.

[46] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 332.

[47] Hervey's _Story of Baptist Missions in Foreign Lands_, pp.
611-612; Cox's _History of the British Baptist Missionary Society_,
1792-1842, p. 12. Phillipo, _Jamaica, Past and Present_; E. K. Love's
_History First African Baptist Church_, p. 35; Brown, _Propagation of
Christianity among Heathen_, Vol. II, p. 94.

[48] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 336, and compare
Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, pp. 476, 481-483.

[49] _Ibid._, 1791, p. 344.

[50] _Ibid._, 1791, p. 336.

[51] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_ (edition 1813), Vol. II, p.
206.

[52] James M. Simm's _The First Colored Baptist Church in North
America_, p. 15.

[53] "Andrew Bryan, and his brother Sampson, who was converted about a
year after Andrew was, were twice imprisoned and they with about fifty
others, without much ceremony, were severely whipped. Andrew was
inhumanly cut and bled abundantly; but while under their lashes he
held up his hands and told his persecutors that he rejoiced not only
to be whipped but would _freely suffer death_ for the cause of
Christ." _Baptist Home Missions in America_, 1832-1882, Jubilee
Volume, p. 388.

[54] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_, edition 1848, p. 170.
Compare with p. 723.

[55] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793, p. 545.

[56] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793-1801, p. 367. Compare
with Clark's letter, 1790-1793, p. 540.

THE NEGROES IN MAURITIUS[1]

Mauritius was discovered by the Portuguese in 1505 and remained in
their possession until 1598, when it was ceded to the Dutch, wh