Rstood before that she had been a Queen in her own Countrey, and observed a very dutiful garb used toward her by another Negro who was her main. Mr. Maverick was desirous to have a breed of Negroes, and therefore seeing she would not yield
by persuasion to company with a Negro young
man he had in his

house, he commanded him, will'd

she, nill'd she,

to go to bed
with her, but she kickt him out again. This she took in high disdain beyond her slavery, and this was the cause of her grief." From this statement it appears that Maverick had at
least thee slaves: but the number held in the Province, no record
informs us. In 1641, the Massachusetts Colony passed the following law:-- "There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage or captivitie amongst us unless it be lawfull captives

taken in just warres,
and such strangers as _willingly sell themselves._ And these shall have all the liberties and christian usuages, which the law of God established in Isreal concerning such persons doth morally require. This exempts none from _servitude,_ who shall be judged thereto by authority." "He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if _he be found in his hand,_ he shall surely be put to death."--Ex. 21:16. In 1646, one James Smith, a member of Boston
church, brought home two negroes from the Coast of Guinea, and had been the means of killing near a hundred more. In consequence
of this conduct