"sang very loud and shrill; going out to her she used a
"great deal of respect toward me, and would willingly have
"expressed her grief in English (had she been able to speak the
language); but I apprehended it by
"her countenance & deportment. Whereupon I repaired
"to my host, to learn of him the cause & resolved to
"intreat him in her behalf, for I understood before
"that she had been a Queen in her own Country & ob-
"served a very humble & dutiful garb used towards
"her by another negro who was her maid.
Mr. Maverick
"was desirous to have a breed of negroes; & therefore
"seeing she would not yield by persuasions to com-
"pany with a Negro young man, he had in his house,
"he commanded him, will'd she, nill'd she, to go to
bed
"to her; which was no sooner done, but she kicked
"him out again. This she took in high disdain,
"beyond her slavery, & this was the cause of her
"grief."
In 1645. The General Court of
Massachusetts, which
then exercised jurisdiction over the settlements at
Pasca-
taqua, "thought proper to write to Mr Williams,
residing
"there, understanding that the Negroes which Capt
Smyth
[Citation in left margin: Records of Genl Court in MS. 14d. 3mo
(May)]