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[1066] Coffin, History of Newbury, p. 336, cites instances in Newbury in 1687 and 1702. Orcutt, The History of the old Town of Derby, Connecticut, p. lvii, mentions a deed of manumission in Connecticut in 1688, given to Tobie, an Indian captive of King Philip’s War. Smith, History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, p. 219, refers to the conditional manumission of an Indian slave, three years old, born in the family. Cotton Mather, also, promised to free an Indian slave at the close of four years of service. Diary, in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 7, vii, p. 203.