Note [166 — Chapter III
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[166]
Hamilton,
op. cit.
, in
Transactions of the Canadian Institute
, 1890, i, p. 102;
New York Colonial Documents
, x, p. 1118. General Amherst, the English commander and agent in the negotiations, wrote opposite the proposition: “Granted, except those who shall have been made prisoners.”
Though the word “Pawnee,” in the records, seems to have special reference to Indian slaves, it is sometimes used by the old Canadian writers to signify all persons in servitude, without regard to color. Hamilton, op. cit., in Transactions of the Canadian Institute, 1890, i, p. 107.