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[504] North Carolina Colonial Records, xiii, pp. 204–205, contains a letter of President Lowndes of South Carolina to Governor Caswell of North Carolina, August 6, 1778, concerning the adjustment of this matter. As late as 1776 Cherokee prisoners of war were sold to the highest bidder in South Carolina, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 223; Basset, op. cit., p. 73, in Johns Hopkins University Studies, xiv.