Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-05
White SeryitudC in Massachusetts.

At the present time, when public attention
is so earnestly directed to the subject of sla-
very, every fact or circumstance connected
with its introduction or abolition in any of
the New England States is of interest.
The Inhabitants of the colony of Mnssa-
chusetts Bay, besides their negro slaves, bad
natives of Ireland, Scotland aud England in
sulIeciion 10 thcm, whose time for period
Ot yenrs, longer or shorter, was sold TO pay
the expenses of their transportation.
After the battle Of Dunbar, CromweFs
crownng mercy" and agnia, after the de-
feat OF the followers of Charles Stuart at
worcestershire "great crowning mercy
Parliament, tic tool of the army, ordered the
prisoners whose rank was too low to entitle
them TO the honor Of being beheaded, to he
transported 10 the plantations. They were
sold TO pay for the passage money; that is,
the masters or owners of ships at great ports
toUk them on board, conditioned to deliver
them on shore in one of the plantaiiOns.-
Cromwell gladly executed the execrable pol
icy, and sent the nnlor part OF these victims
oi civil war to the West Indies, where, no
doubt, they must have perishcd by the climate.
Others, whoee happier chnIce was to be ta-
ken 10y the ship john aud Sarah, Capt. John
Greene, were brought to the port of Charles
ton consigned to John Kcmble, To he disposed
Ol 10y him, for the account of John Beer aud
Robert Rich.
The names of two hundred aud seventy of
the persons shipped on board the John and
Sarah, while with the owners Instructions,
are recorded in Suffolk couniy records for
the year 1852. Many of these names are The
same, of both Christians und surnames, as
those of our fellow-ctizens of the present
day.
The common names Of Ross, Gordon, Rob
inson, Simpson, Boyd, Smith, Anderson,
Jackson, Hamilton, Stewart, Wilson, Hunt,
Paterson, Hudson, Moore, Eussle, Howe,
Miller, Culeader, with numerous others, mp
pear.
Nearly the whole number have Scriptural
names. Forty-iivo, or one sixth pnrt Of the
whole, bear the name of John; twenty-six
rejoice in the name Of Daniel twenty-three
are called james, and fourteen David. OF
those designntedby Hebrew names, eighteen
are called Patrick," which is nearly ms good
as Scripture title, for i; is the name OF Il
Saint.
The Rev. John Cotton, the then venerable
pastor of tho First Church in Boston, wrote
the Lord General Cromwell" in the year
1851, ns follows:
iuc CcolS WHOM Aou uelNcIcu INV yu"'
hands at Duulbarre, and whereof sundry
were sent hther we have hoen desirous-as
we could--to make their yoke oasy. Such
rs were sick of tho scuryey or other diseases,
have not wanted physic aud chyrurgery.- =
They have not been sold for slaves to perpet-
ual seryiiude, but for six or seven or eight
years, as we do our own; and he that bought
tho most of them-l hear-buiidetll houses
for them, for every four an house, lnyell'
some acres of ground thereto, which he Civ
eth them as their own, requiring three days
in the week to work lnr him--by hrns-and
four days for themselves, aud promise, as
soon as they can repay him the money he
ayelh out Tor them, he will set them at lib
erty."
In 1872 the average price of white SER
vant, where five years service wns due, was
about fl0, while negro was worth 92c TO
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