[461] Hening, The Statutes at Large, I, pp. 146, 532. II, 170; III, pp. 86-88, 252.

[462] Hening, Statutes at Large, VI, pp. 360-362.

[463] Meade, Old Churches and Families of Virginia, I, p. 366.

[464] Russell, Free Negro in Virginia, pp. 138-139.

[465] Bassett, Slavery and Servitude in North Carolina, p. 83.

[466] Ibid., pp. 58-59. See also Natural History of North Carolina, p. 48; and Hawk's History of North Carolina, II, pp. 126-127.

[467] Potter, Revised Laws of North Carolina, I, p. 130.

[468] Ibid., I, p. 157.

[469] Massachusetts Charters, etc., p. 747; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, VI, p. 262.

[470] Turner, The Negro in Pennsylvania, pp. 29-30.