William Burnet, governor of New-York and New Jersey, 1720-1728; a sketch of his administration in New-York . r fifty pounds; in 1723 Captain Muuroeis willing to sell his negio wench, 17 years old, warranted sound inlimb, a native of Jamaica, for £45. Mr. Chaloner offers a negrowench for £45, 20 years old, sound of limb, and with the promiseof supplying her owner with another human chattel in the couise ofthree months. William Eraser, of Richmond County, is closing upan estate, and offers a negro man and wench for sale, for fifty andsixty pounds respectively. Eobert King, of Perth Amljoy, offer
William Burnet, governor of New-York and New Jersey, 1720-1728; a sketch of his administration in New-York . r fifty pounds; in 1723 Captain Muuroeis willing to sell his negio wench, 17 years old, warranted sound inlimb, a native of Jamaica, for £45. Mr. Chaloner offers a negrowench for £45, 20 years old, sound of limb, and with the promiseof supplying her owner with another human chattel in the couise ofthree months. William Eraser, of Richmond County, is closing upan estate, and offers a negro man and wench for sale, for fifty andsixty pounds respectively. Eobert King, of Perth Amljoy, offers tosell George Clarke a negro Wench for fifty pounds,^ while Dr. Dupuywants fifty-five pounds for a negro wench nineteen years old, whomhe had brought up from infancy. The poor girl did not like to besold, he said, but he sent her to Mr. Clarke on approval, with thecaution: she will pretend not to know anything, but she must not 1 Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS., 2 : 489, 497. 3 Council 14 : 290. 2 Council Minutes, 13 : 305. iCalendar N. Y. Hist. MSS., 2 : 454,470,477-481. 164 HISTORY OF NEW-YOKK. EAST RIVER, BETWEEH JOHN STREET AND PECK SLIP. be believed. Three years later Mr. Clarke is anxious to sell a negrowoman, as she has a great itch foi- running away. So it is prol^ablethat the girl could not be tamed into submission. Ex-Sheriff Harri-son, of Perth Amboy, wants seventy-five pounds for a negro wenchand child four years old. The importations of slaves into New-Yorkwere, for the years named : 1720, eighty-one; 1721, one hundred and ninety-three; 1722, onehundied and six; 1723,eighty-two; 1724, sixty-,.-::- «, one; 1725, one hundred and thirteen; 1726, onehundred and newspapers of theday contain numerousadvertisements offer-ing rewards for run-away slaves, who aredescribed as if theywere, horses or mules, with all their peculiar marks. There wasa white slavery in those days, too. In 1723 a white woman andher husband, from New England, who had been burnt o
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