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 aid meeting, it being a thing of too great weight for this meeting to determine. "Signed by order of y$e$ meeting. ""

The minutes of the Yearly Meeting, held at Burlington in the ame year, record the reult of this firt effort among the Quakers.

Richard Baxter has been repreented as having "echoed the opinions of Puritan Maachuetts." Bancroft,, 412. We have already hown that the Puritans of Maachuetts were not hotile to lavery. Neither was Baxter; for he exprely recognized the lawfulnes of the purchae and ue of men as laves, although he denounced man-tealing as piracy. The principal point of his Chritian Directory (publihed in 1673) in this matter, was concerning the religious obligations growing out of the relation of mater and lave. Works, ., 212–20.,, 330., , 210.