"The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West New-Jersey, in America."
Chap. XXIII. "That in all publick Courts of Justice for Tryals of Causes, Civil or Criminal, any Person or Persons, Inhabitants of the said Province, may freely come into, and attend the said Courts, ... that all and every Person and Persons Inhabiting the said Province, shall, as far as in us lies, be free from Oppression and Slavery." Leaming and Spicer, Grants, Concessions, etc., pp. 382, 398.
1688, Feb. 18. Pennsylvania: First Protest of Friends against Slave-Trade.
"At Monthly Meeting of Germantown Friends." For text, see above, pages 28–29. Fac-simile Copy (1880).
1695, May. Maryland: 10s. Duty Act.
"An Act for the laying an Imposition upon Negroes, Slaves, and White Persons imported into this Province." Re-enacted in 1696, and included in Acts of 1699 and 1704. Bacon, Laws, 1695, ch. ix.; 1696, ch. vii.; 1699, ch. xxiii.; 1704, ch. ix.
1696. Pennsylvania: Protest of Friends.
"That Friends be careful not to encourage the bringing in of any more negroes." Bettle, Notices of Negro Slavery, in Penn. Hist. Soc. Mem. (1864), I. 383.
1698, Oct. 8. South Carolina: White Servants Encouraged.