Waterman, T. Fenner, H. Ashton, J. Morey, D. Abbot, J.
Olney, V. Whitman, J. Whipple, sen., E. Pray, J. Pray, J. Angell,
Jas. Angell, T. Arnold, A. Man, T. Field, E. Bennett, T. Clemence,
W. Lancaster, W. Hopkins, W. Hawkins, W. Harris, Z. Field, S.
Winsor, and Capt. Fenner, shall each have a whole share in the
product. I. Woodward and R. Pray, three-fourths of a share each. J.
Smith, E. Smith, S. Whipple, N. Whipple, and T. Walling each half a
share."
Signed, "Roger Williams, Thomas Harris, sen., Thomas X Angell,
Thomas Field, John Whipple, Jr."
To gratify curiosity as to the price of Indians on those terms, the
following extracts are made from an account of sales about this
time;
"To Anthony Low, five Indians, great and small, L8.
"To James Rogers, two, for twenty bushels of Indian corn.
"To Philip Smith, two, in silver, $4 10.
"To Daniel Allen, one, in silver, $2 10.
"To C. Carr, one, twelve bushels of Indian corn.
"To Elisha Smith, one, in wool, 100 lbs.
"To Elisha Smith, one, for three fat sheep."
From 1492, the discovery of Hispaniola, to 1502, the short space of but
four years, such was the mortality among the natives, that the Spaniards
then holding rule there, "began to employ a few" Africans in the mines
of the Island.
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