[136] Laws of 1672.
[137] Ibid.
[138] Iredell, 1741.
[139] Act of 1636.
[140] Act of 1784.
[141] Neill, Founders of Maryland, pp. 77-79, gives the names of eighty servants brought over by Cornwallis between 1634 and 1651; and of these, five became members of the Assembly, one became a sheriff, and two were signers of the Protestant Declaration. Other noteworthy instances are found in Virginia. Neill, Virginia Carolorum, p. 297. Sometimes, however, the trail of the serpent remained. R. G., in a treatise published about 1661, says of the burgesses that they “were usually such as went over servants thither, and though by time, and industry, they may have attained competent estates, yet by reason of their poor and mean condition, were unskilful in judging of a good estate, either of church or Commonwealth, or by the means of procuring it.”—Virginia Carolorum, p. 290. George Taylor, a Pennsylvania redemptioner, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
[142] The Sot-Weed Factor describes a quarrel in which one says:
“... tho’ now so brave,
I knew you late a Four-Years Slave;
What if for Planter’s Wife you go,