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Historically Speaking: Dover has its own history of slavery Tony McManus Back in 1775, Colonial authorities in New Hampshire took a census of its inhabitants and reported the total number of people then in Dover as 1,666. There were 410 males under the age of 16, 786 females, 342 males between the ages of 16 and 50 not in the army, and 74 males over the age of 50, a decidedly young population. In addition, there were 342 males gone in the army, a decidedly large percentage of the whole. There was one final category: 26 negros and slaves for life . There may not have been an organized slave trade in New Hampshire in those years, but there was considerable commerce between the Seacoast and various Caribbean islands, being the source for much of the slave population in the Southern Colonies. But there were individuals who would be brought to Portsmouth and purchased by some of the wealthier families in the area, more so there than in Dover. ....
Whereas at a Generall Court held att James Citty Aprill the 26th 1688 Present the honourable his Majesties Councill of State It apeard that Sam a Negro Servant to Richard Metcalfe hath several times endeavoured to promote a Negro Insurreccon in this Colony, It is therefore ordered to deter him & others from the like evil practice for time to come, that he be by the Sheriff of James Citty County or his deputy severely whipt att a cart tayle from the prison round about the town & then to the Gallows, and from thence to the prison againe and that hee be conveyed by the sheriff of Westmoreland County to that county & hee is ordered to whip him severely at the next Court to be held for that County, & that hee have a halter about his necke during that time, & afterwards that hee have a strong Iron collar affixed about his neck with four spriggs which collar he is never to take or gett off nor to goe off his master or masters plantacon during all the time he shall live, and if he shall g ....