FOOTNOTES:
[475] It is unfortunate that there is no good history of New Jersey. The records of the Historical Society of that State are not conveniently printed, nor valuable in colonial data.
[476] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 283.
[477] The following were the instructions his lordship received, concerning the treatment of Negro slaves: "You shall endeavour to get a law past for the restraining of any inhuman severity, which by ill masters or overseers may be used towards their Christian servants and their slaves, and that provision be made therein that the wilfull killing of Indians and negroes may be punished with death, and that a fit penalty be emposed for the maiming of them."—Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 280, note.
[478] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 284.
[479] Hurd, vol. i. p. 285.
[480] Hurd, vol. i. p 285.
[481] American Annals, vol. ii. pp. 127, 143.