Note [953 — Chapter XI
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[953] Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, iv, p. 48. A Spanish Indian slave was tried and acquitted by the Court of Assistants of Massachusetts Bay, in 1676. Records of the Court of Assistants of Massachusetts Bay, i, p. 15. Sewall mentions Indians (probably free Indians) tried, condemned and executed for crimes in Massachusetts in 1709. Sewall’s Diary, in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 5, vi, pp. 264, 265.