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 by Mr. Maverick, on Noddle's Iland." Hitory of New England, II., 30, note. If there is any evidence to utain this tatement, it is certainly not in the authority to which he refers. On the contrary, the inference is irreitible from all the authorities together, that the negroes of Mr. Maverick were a portion of thoe imported in the firt colonial lave-hip, the Deire, of who{[ls}}e voyage we have given the hitory. It is not to be uppofed that Mr. Maverick had waited ten years before taking the teps towards improving his tock of negroes, which are referred to by Joelyn. Ten years' lavery on Noddle's I{[ls}}land would have made the negro-queen more familiar with the Englih language, if not more compliant to the brutal cutoms of lavery.

It will be oberved that this firt entrance into the lave-trade was not a private, individual peculation. It was the enterprie of the authorities of the Colony. And on the 13th March, 1639, it was ordered by the General Court "that 3l 8s should be paid Leiftenant Davenport for the preent, for charge dibured for the flaves, which, when they have earned it, hee is to repay it back againe." The marginal note is, "Lieft. Davenport to keep y$e$ laues." ''Mas. Rec.,'' ., 253.

Emanuel Downing, a lawyer of the Inner Temple, London, who married Lucy Winthrop, iter of the elder Winthrop, came over to New England in 1638. The editors of the Winthrop papers ay of him, "There were few more active or efficient friends of the Maachuetts Colony during its earliet and mot critical period." His on was the famous Sir George Downing, Englih ambaador at the Hague.