Note [288 — Chapter III
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[288] Dunn, Indiana, p. 127. Parkman Club Papers, p. 210, gives an account of the marriage of two Indian slaves in 1754. About 1750 half the baptisms and marriages recorded in the church register of Vincennes were “red or Indian slaves,” belonging to the commandant or to the inhabitants. Law, The General History of Vincennes, etc., p. 145.