ica The following paſſage from Joſſelyn's Account of Two Voyages to New England, publiſhed at London in 1664, will explain itſelf:
"The Second of October, [1639] about 9 of the clock in the morning Mr. Mavericks Negro woman came to my chamber window, and in her own Countrey language and tune ſang very loud and ſhrill, going out to her, ſhe uſed a great deal of reſpect towards me, and willingly would have expreſſed her grief in Engliſh; but I apprehended it by her countenance and deportment, whereupon I repaired to my hoſt, to learn of him the cauſe, and reſolved to intreat him in her behalf, for that I underſtood before, that ſhe had been a Queen in her own Countrey, and obſerved a very humble and dutiful garb uſed towards her by another Negro who was her maid. Mr. Maverick was deſirous to have a breed of Negroes, and therefore ſeeing ſhe would not yield by perſuaſions to company 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 kickt him out again, this ſhe took in high diſdain beyond her ſlavery, and this was the cauſe of her grief." Joſſelyn, 28.
Joſſelyn viſited New England twice, and ſpent about ten years in this country, from 1638–39 and 1663 to 1671. In ſpeaking of the people of Boſton he mentions that the people "are well accommodated with ſervants …. of theſe ſome are Engliſh, others Negroes." Ibid., 182.
Mr. Palfrey ſays: "Before Winthrop's arrival there were two negro ſlaves in Maſſachuſetts, held
