[387] Felt, vol. ii. pp. 416, 417.
[388] Hist. of Leicester, pp. 442, 443.
[389] Freeman's Hist. of Cape Cod, vol. ii. pp. 114, 115.
[390] Boston Gazette, Aug. 17, 1761.
[391] Letters of Mrs. Adams, p. 20.
[392] Adams's Works, vol. ii. p. 200.
[393] Adams's Works, vol. ii, p. 213.
[394] Records, 1768, fol., p. 284.
[395] This is the case referred to by the late Charles Sumner in his famous speech in answer to Senator Butler of South Carolina; see also Slavery in Mass., p. 115, 116; Washburn's Judicial Hist. of Mass., p. 202; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1863-64, p. 322.
[396] Records, 1769, fol. p. 196. Gray in Quincy's Reports, p. 30, note, quoted by Dr. Moore.