. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. of persons. It is plainly written,on sheets of foolscap paper past-ed together, forms a roll of over twenty fe t in length. Thefollowing table gives the precise words of the headings of the sev-eral columns of the original return, and accurate copies of the foo()t-ings of the different classes of persons in each town, with the to-tal number of persons of all the classes in the several towns. 6* MLJ2>lit nj^tviA/ Arlington 251 Bennington, 639 Bromley,(Peru) 21 Dorset, 240 Glastenbury, 6 Landgrove, 7 Manchester, 338 Pownal, 419 Readsborough, 16 R
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. of persons. It is plainly written,on sheets of foolscap paper past-ed together, forms a roll of over twenty fe t in length. Thefollowing table gives the precise words of the headings of the sev-eral columns of the original return, and accurate copies of the foo()t-ings of the different classes of persons in each town, with the to-tal number of persons of all the classes in the several towns. 6* MLJ2>lit nj^tviA/ Arlington 251 Bennington, 639 Bromley,(Peru) 21 Dorset, 240 Glastenbury, 6 Landgrove, 7 Manchester, 338 Pownal, 419 Readsborough, 16 Rupert, 251 Shaftsbury, 491 Stamford, 69 Sunderland, 113 Sandgate, 198 Woodford, 16 Winhall, 39 252604 19231 114 338499 16288530 65101189 18 46 4871114 314871720595825324949741371993862669 1 9 21 31 991 2377 71 1746641033199927241477360155 m 3114 3211 5893 17 4 15 12254. By comparing the above two tables, it will be seen that theyagree in every particular, except in relation to free colored, personsand slaves, and that they differ only in this, that while the numberof free persons of color, as returned by the assistant marshal\, was36, the published report transforms 16 of them into slaves, allow-ing only twenty of the number to be free. Nor is it difficult tosee how the error in the published, report occurred. The transcrib-er having blanks to fill with the tight hand column headed slaves,copied the numbers found in the right hand column of the return,and thus heedlessly turned the fifteen free colored females into sslaves, adding at the close one free male under sixteen for the townof Winhall. This addition for Winhall is accounted for by the factthat the figure in the manuscript return was so placed, as to be xreadily taken by a careless observer to belong to the column fromwhich the fifteen had been copied. It will be noticed that the twotables no
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