[12] Cf. New England Register, XXXI. 75–6, letter of John Saffin et al. to Welstead. Cf. also Sewall, Protest, etc.
[13] The number of slaves in New Hampshire has been estimated as follows:
| In | 1730, | 200. | N.H. Hist. Soc. Coll., I. 229. |
| " | 1767, | 633. | Granite Monthly, IV. 108. |
| " | 1773, | 681. | Ibid. |
| " | 1773, | 674. | N.H. Province Papers, X. 636. |
| " | 1775, | 479. | Granite Monthly, IV. 108. |
| " | 1790, | 158. | Ibid. |
[14] N.H. Province Papers, IV. 617.
[15] Granite Monthly, VI. 377; Poore, Federal and State Constitutions, pp. 1280–1.
[16] Cf. The Body of Liberties, § 91, in Whitmore, Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony, published at Boston in 1890.
[17] Mass. Col. Rec., II. 168, 176; III. 46, 49, 84.
[18] Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England, II. 456.
[19] Mass. Province Laws, 1705–6, ch. 10.
[20] Ibid., 1728–9, ch. 16; 1738–9, ch. 27.