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iture. As early as the year 1649 we find William Hilton, of Newbury, sells to George Carr, for one quarter part of a vessel, James, my Indian, with all the interest I have in him, to be his servant forever. Some were taken in the Narragansett war and other Indian wars; others were brought from South Carolina and the Spanish Main. It is an instructive fact, as illustrating the retributive dealings of Providence, that the direst affliction of the Massachusetts Colony—the witchcraft terror of 1692—originated with the Indian Tituba, a slave in the family of the minister of Danvers. In the year 1690 the inhabitants of Newbury were greatly excited by the arrest of a Jerseyman who had been engaged in enticing Indians and negroes to leave their masters. He was charged before the court with saying that the English should be cut off and the negroes set free. James, a negro slave, and Joseph, an Indian, were arrested with him. Their design was reported to be, to seize a vessel in the por