[16] Danbury, Dec. 12, 1774: Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1038. This case and that of Georgia are the only ones I have found in which the slave-trade clause was specifically mentioned.

[17] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1033, 1136, 1160, 1163; II. 279–281, 1544; Journals of Cong., May 13, 15, 17, 1775.

[18] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1136.

[19] Ibid., II. 279–81.

[20] Ibid., I. 1160.

[21] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1163.

[22] Journals of Cong., May 13, 15, 1775.

[23] Ibid., May 17, 1775.

[24] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., II. 1545.

[25] Drayton, Memoirs of the American Revolution, I. 182. Cf. pp. 181–7; Ramsay, History of S. Carolina, I. 231.