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 rated as other Polls, and not as Peronal Etate. In 1726, the aeors were required to etimate Indian, Negro, and Mulatto ervants proportionably as other Peronal Etate, according to their found judgment and dicretion. In 1727, the rule of 1718 was retored, but during one year only, for in 1728 the law was the ame as that of 1726; and o it probably remained, including all uch ervants, as well for term of years as for life, in the rateable etates. We have een the upply bills for 1736, 1738, 1739, and 1740, in which this feature is the fame.

And thus they continued to be rated with hores, oxen, cows, goats, heep, and wine, until after the commencement of the War of the Revolution. We have not een the law, but Mr. Felt tates that "in 1776 the colored polls were taxed the ame as the white polls, and o continued to be." ''Coll. Amer. Stat. Aoc.,'' ., 475. See alo pp. 203, 311, 345, 411.

In the inventory of Captain Paul White, in 1679, was "one negrow = 30l." In 1708, an Indian boy from South Carolina brought 35l. An Indian girl brought fifteen pounds, at Salem, in Augut, 1710. The highet price paid for any of a cargo brought into Boton, by the loop Katherine, in 1727, was eighty pounds. The etate of Samuel Morgaridge, who died in 1754, included the following: "Item, three negroes 133l. 6s. 8d." Coffin's Newbury, 188, 336. ''Coll. Eex Intitute,'', 14. Felt's Salem, 416.

"The Guinea Trade," as it was called then, ince known and branded by all civilized nations as piracy,