Bowles who were executed. A public guard of 68
policed the city for some months afterwards. Cf. Ballagh, _Slavery in
Virginia_, p. 92.
[30] From Article I of the Constitution of this body it is presumed
that the Richmond Society contributed "a sum amounting to at least one
hundred dollars" for their membership fee.
[31] _Proceedings of the General Convention_, 1817, p. 134.
[32] Gammell, _A History of American Baptist Missions_, p. 256.
[33] _The Third Annual Report of the Baptist Board of Foreign
Missions_, p. 180.
[34] _Proceedings of the Baptist General Convention_, 1829, p. 34;
Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, pp. 30, 32.
[35] Letter to Doctor Staughton, dated Philadelphia, April 30, 1818,
in the _Fourth Annual Report of the Baptist Board of Foreign
Missions_.
[36] _Third Annual Report of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions_,
p. 180.
[37] Cf. _Letters and Addresses of Lott Cary._
[38] August 5, 1816, the Negro Baptists of Warren County, North
Carolina, contributed $5.15; August 18, of the County Line
Association, Caswell County, North Carolina, $.69; September 1, of the
Shiloh Association, Culpepper, Virginia, $1.90; October 21, of the Pee
Dee Association, Montgomery County, North Carolina, $2.19; May 7,
1817, "a col. Wom." of Georgia, $1; June 2, "Coloured Brethren" of the
Sunbury Association, Georgia, $21; June 16, "a man of colour 15
cts.--a woman of col. 6 cts." and August 1, "a man of col. 25
cts."--_The Third Annual Report of the Baptist Board_, pp. 146-149;
_The Fourth Annual Report of the Baptist Board_, pp. 206, 208.
[39] _The Fourth Annual Report of the Baptist Board of Foreign
Missions_, pp. 206, 208, 210.
[40] Peck, _op. cit._, p. 444; Hervey, _op. cit._, p. 201.
[41] Cf. Journal of Mills in Spring, _Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J.
Mills_.
[42] Letter dated Richmond, March 28, 1819, to the Rev. Obadiah B.
Brown, Washington City.
[43] _The Missionary Jubilee_, p. 215.
[44] _Sixth Annual Report of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions_ in
_The Latter Day Luminary_, Vol. II, p. 141.
[45] _The Latter Day Luminary_, Vol. II, p. 141.
[46] Peck, _op. cit._, p. 439; cf. also The Missionary Jubilee, p.
215. The constitution of the Richmond African Baptist Missionary
Society restricted its funds to Africa.
[47] _The African Repository_, March, 1829; Gurley, _op. cit._,
appendix.
[48] This would have increased his salary to $1000 annually.
[49] Letter of William Crane to
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