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 The following paage from Joelyn's Account of Two Voyages to New England, publihed at London in 1664, will explain itelf:

"The Second of October, [1639] about 9 of the clock in the morning Mr. Mavericks Negro woman came to my chamber window, and in her own Countrey language and tune ang very loud and hrill, going out to her, he ued a great deal of repect towards me, and willingly would have expreed her grief in Englih; but I apprehended it by her countenance and deportment, whereupon I repaired to my hot, to learn of him the caue, and reolved to intreat him in her behalf, for that I undertood before, that he had been a Queen in her own Countrey, and oberved a very humble and dutiful garb ued towards her by another Negro who was her maid. Mr. Maverick was deirous to have a breed of Negroes, and therefore eeing he would not yield by peruaions to company with a Negro young man he had in his houe; he commanded him will'd he nill'd he to go to bed to her, which was no ooner done but he kickt him out again, this he took in high didain beyond her lavery, and this was the caue of her grief." Joelyn, 28.

Joelyn viited New England twice, and pent about ten years in this country, from 1638–39 and 1663 to 1671. In peaking of the people of Boton he mentions that the people "are well accommodated with ervants …. of thee ome are Englih, others Negroes." Ibid., 182.

Mr. Palfrey ays: "Before Winthrop's arrival there were two negro laves in Maachuetts, held