. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. ractice of such use may havebeen continued for on June 15,1664 we find among the itemized expend-itures for powder two and one half pounds for powder issued to fourgangs of negroes and the overseer. Governor Bellomont (1699) sug-gested to the Lords of Trade the plan of importing negroes from Africa for military recruits. He asserted that the negroes could live 3. on 9_d per day, whereas the whites required 12d. After the battle of Lake George a gunner wrote to his Blacks behavea better than the Whites. In 1756 a sortie fromFort Williams too
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. ractice of such use may havebeen continued for on June 15,1664 we find among the itemized expend-itures for powder two and one half pounds for powder issued to fourgangs of negroes and the overseer. Governor Bellomont (1699) sug-gested to the Lords of Trade the plan of importing negroes from Africa for military recruits. He asserted that the negroes could live 3. on 9_d per day, whereas the whites required 12d. After the battle of Lake George a gunner wrote to his Blacks behavea better than the Whites. In 1756 a sortie fromFort Williams took place upon the strength of news brought jjji theEnglish by a negro who had escaped from the French. Negro troopswere sometimes considered sufficiently reliable to be used as aconstant fatigue. The bravery of negroes has often been shown, butthey naturally require leadership. 1. Doc. rel to Col. Hist, of N. Y. I, 415. 2. Hid. II, 465, 469. 3. Ibid. IV, 506. 4. Ibid. VI, 1005. 5. Ibid. X, 403. 6. Coll. of N. Y. Hist. Soc. 1880, 109. =^==. The catalogues of negro and mulatto soldiers are interestingon account of the variety of places of nativity and of trades,fe rind blacks from Guinea, Portugal, New York, Hew Jersey, Jamaica,¥fest Indies, Boston, Curriso (?^, and Albany. AmAng the trades re-presented by the negroes are laborer*, weavers, tanners, coopers,mariners, carpenters, tailors, millers, farmers, wool-combers, black-smiths, badckmakers. In1779 Sir Henry Clinton issued a proclamation tending to en- courage the desertion o negroes to the British forces. In 1781 an act was passed in New York in accordance with which negro slaves who enlisted were to he freed and their masters were to be rewaEded 3. by a grant of public land. Rhode Island. Earljr in 1778 general Varnum wrote to Washington to recommend v the enlisting of negroes in Rhode Island. Washington sent Varnums r letter to the Governor of Rhode Island. In accordance with thissuggestion an act permitting the enlistment
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