. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. MDr. Belknap wrote and printed, in the year 1795, a notice ofthis trial, which we copy. In 1781, at the Court in Worcester bounty, an indictment wa?found against a white an for assaulting, heating, and imprisoninga blafek. He was tried at the Supreme Judicial court in defence was, that the black was his slave, and that the heating,etc., was the necessary restraint and correction of the was answered by citing the aforesaid clause in the declarationof rights. The judges and ,iury ^ere of the qnjpikon that he had noright to imprison o
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. MDr. Belknap wrote and printed, in the year 1795, a notice ofthis trial, which we copy. In 1781, at the Court in Worcester bounty, an indictment wa?found against a white an for assaulting, heating, and imprisoninga blafek. He was tried at the Supreme Judicial court in defence was, that the black was his slave, and that the heating,etc., was the necessary restraint and correction of the was answered by citing the aforesaid clause in the declarationof rights. The judges and ,iury ^ere of the qnjpikon that he had noright to imprison or beat the negro. He was found guilty and fined40 shillings. This decision was ^portal wound to slavery in Mas-sachusetts i . II. H. S. Coll. , I, IV, 203. Hist, o° Slavery in Mass., Article by Ceorge H. Moore. One of the most accomplished historical scholars in the coun-try, Mr. J. Wlngate Thornton, of Boston, has recently discovered theform of negro-marriage prepared and used by the Reverend SamuelPhillips of Andover, Massachusetts, whose ministry there, beginningin 1710 and ending with his death in 1771, was a prolonged and emin-ently distinguished service of more than half the eighteenth immediate successor was the Reverend Jonathan French (1772-1809)in the family of whose son, Mr. Thornton found the document at NorthHampton, N. H. on the thirty-f(>rst of December, is copied exactly from the original now before me, and the italicsare marked by the author himself, whose work could certainly havebeen none other than of the most approved and orthodox uno disce omnes. A Form for a Hegroe-Marriage You R: do now, in y Presence of God, and these Witnesses, TakeS: to be your Husband; Promising, that so far asyour present Relation, as
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