Total number of Africans imported from 1701 to 1726, 2,375, of whom 802 were from Africa: O'Callaghan, Documentary History of New York, I. 482.
[16] Cf. below, Chapter XI.
[17] Vermont State Papers, 1779–86, p. 244. The return of sixteen slaves in Vermont, by the first census, was an error: New England Record, XXIX. 249.
[18] Vermont State Papers, p. 505.
[19] The following is a summary of the legislation of the colony of Pennsylvania and Delaware; details will be found in Appendix A:—
| 1705, | Duty Act: (?). | |
| 1710, | " | 40s. (Disallowed). |
| 1712, | " | £20 " |
| 1712, | " | supplementary to the Act of 1710. |
| 1715, | " | £5 (Disallowed). |
| 1718, | " | " |
| 1720, | " | (?). |
| 1722, | " | (?). |
| 1725–6, | " | £10. |
| 1726, | " | |
| 1729, | " | £2. |
| 1761, | " | £10. |
| 1761, | " | (?). |
| 1768, | " | re-enactment of the Act of 1761. |
| 1773, | " | perpetual additional duty of £10; total, £20. |
| 1775, | Bill to prohibit importation vetoed by the governor (Delaware). | |
| 1775, | Bill to prohibit importation vetoed by the governor. | |
| 1778, | Back duties on slaves ordered collected. | |
| 1780, | Act for the gradual abolition of slavery. | |
| 1787, | Act to prevent the exportation of slaves (Delaware). | |
| 1788, | Act to prevent the slave-trade. | |
[20] From fac-simile copy, published at Germantown in 1880. Cf. Whittier's poem, "Pennsylvania Hall" (Poetical Works, Riverside ed., III. 62); and Proud, History of Pennsylvania (1797), I. 219.
[21] From fac-simile copy, published at Germantown in 1880.
[22] Bettle, Notices of Negro Slavery, in Penn. Hist. Soc. Mem. (1864), I. 383.
[23] Cf. Bettle, Notices of Negro Slavery, passim.