"Have you any friends in England?"
"None, since my father came away."
"Where did you live before your father enlisted in the army of Monmouth?"
"We travelled; we lived at no one place."
"Have you no friends or relatives in England?"
The captain then asked permission to talk with the father. The permission was given by Hull, for he saw that his slave had the sympathy of all present, and it would not be safe to refuse him some privileges. The master of the vessel and the magistrate who had superintended the selling of the slaves for the crown found the slave a very intelligent gentleman. He said he had but one relative living so far as he knew. He had a brother who had come to America two or three years before; but he had not heard from him, and he might be dead.
"Do you know any one in England to whom your child could be sent?"
"I do not."
"What were you doing before you entered the duke's army?"