Note [624 — Chapter VII
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[624] Archdale, op. cit., in Carroll, op. cit., ii, p. 107; Hewat, op. cit., i, p. 78; Calendar of State Papers, colonial series, xi, p. 508; Public Records of South Carolina, i, 1663–1684, p 266; B. P. R. O., Colonial Entry Book, xxii, p. 20. The Journal of the English Board of Trade, vol. xi, p. 174, under the date August 19, 1698, and the marginal heading American Indian Slaves, contains the following direction to the governor of Bermudas: “And upon observation made that it is commonly said there are many Americans at Bermuda kept as slaves; ordered, that the governor be required to give an account, what number there are of them, from whence they are bought and by whom imported.” The governor’s reply was a mere tabulation of slaves, with a statement of their sex and the locality in which they resided, without any special reference to Indian slaves. No further reference was made to the matter by the Board of Trade.