Note 7 — Chapter V
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Page 28—In an unrelated matter, but of interest, the town records indicate that Josiah Cotton had a black slave in 1732 named Quamony. Theophilus Cotton had a slave in 1751 named Phillis. Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian, p. 20, Davis estimates that in 1740 there were at least fifty slaves, all ages.