give this worthy Negro family their liberty; and
actually sold the father, mother, and the three
children, to a company of Georgia slave dealers,
who were then in the neighbourhood. They being
conscious that the young man had no right thus
to sell the family, had determined to take them
away in the dead of the night, to preclude the pos-
sibility of applying to any magistrate for pro-
tection. However, the Negro had got some
intimation of what was going forward, and, in
consequence, kept loaded fire arms in his house,
being determined to shoot any person who should
attempt to break into his habitation. These pre-
cautions being known to the slave dealers, they,
for some time, did not venture to molest him;
but he and his wife being soon wearied with liv-
ing in this state of anxious suspense, consulted a
fellow Negro, in whom they placed confidence, as
to their best method of proceeding; and it was
concluded that the whole family should leave that
part of the country, and settle in Pennsylvania, as
soon as possible; where they would be out of the
reach of the slave dealers.

No sooner was this determination come to, than
their perfidious friend, for the sake of a trifling
reward, went to the Georgia slave traders, to betray
the whole family into their hands; and, in the mid-
dle of the night, they were seized, bound, and forci-
bly taken from their comfortable habitation, in order
to be put on board a small sloop which lay in the