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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… against the wife and sons of John Williams, a free negro, for his opinion in point of law. [ C.O. 138, 15. p. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… seize the goods, provisions or whatever they found with a negro not haveing a ticket from his master, which the next … made; if he had one it was taken and torn, and then the negro unavoidably fell into the hands of the others, who way … for want of it. And this practice was so frequent that no negro could pass with security with any goods of his masters …