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 conider what all the riks of health and life were to be, and whether the increae of tock would reimbure the los of ervice.

The breeding of laves was not regarded with favor. Dr. Belknap ays, that "negro children were conidered an incumbrance in a family; and when weaned, were given away like puppies." M. H. S. Coll.,, iv., 200. They were frequently publicly advertied "to be given away,"—ometimes with the additional inducement of a um of money to any one who would take them off.

At the ame time there is no room for doubt that there were public and legalized marriages among laves in Maachuetts, ubequently to the paage of this act of 1705. Mr. Jutice Gray tates that, "the ubequent records of Boton and other towns how that their banns were publihed like thoe of white perons.