_LIST OF IMPORTANT FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES._
No attempt has been made to present a full list of cases, but only such as had especial influence on the public mind, or such as illustrate some special phase of the question.
=1. New Netherlands and Hartford controversy. [§ 11.]=
=1646.= Escapes from both colonies: _Winthrop, History of New England, 383; Moore, Notes on History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 28; Doyle, English in America, I. 391._
=1659.= Four men escaped from New Amsterdam: _New York Colonial Manuscripts, XIII. 238; Documentary History of N. Y. Colony, II. 556 (Ch. I. p. 4)._
=3. Escape of white servants to Cape May. [§ 9.]=
=1661.= Virginian white colonists escape: _New York Colonial Manuscripts, XIII. 346._
The negro servants of the Governor of Virginia: _New York Colonial Manuscripts, II. 637._
=5. Escape from English to French. [§ 11.]=
=1748.= Negro servant escapes from English to Canada: _New York Colonial Manuscripts, X. 209._
=1750, Oct.= Escaped from Framingham, Mass.: _Boston Gazette, Oct. 2, 1750; Liberator, Mar. 16, 1860; Nineteenth Anniversary of Boston Massacre, W. C. Neil, Address; Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, I. 330._
Slave freed in Glasgow: _Mass. Historical Society Collections, Third Series, IX. 2._
=1762.= Slave freed in England: _Quincy, Reports of Cases, 96._
=1772.= England will not return a fugitive slave: _Moore, Slavery in Mass., 117; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 163; Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, 44-52; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, I. 189-193; Broom, Constitutional Law, 6-119; Howells, State Trials, XX. 1; Tasswell-Langmead, English Constitutional History, 300, n._
=1770.= Harbored a slave: _Moore, Slavery in Mass., 117._
=1778.= Free negro kidnapped in Pennsylvania: _Am. State Papers, I. 39; Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 1585._
=1793.= First case in Boston after 1793: _Edw. C. Learned, Speech on The New Fugitive Slave Law, Chicago, Oct. 25, 1850; Whittier, Prose Works, 11, 129, A Chapter of History; Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, 232; Boston Atlas, Oct. 15, 1850._
=1796, Oct.= President Washington demanded a slave from Portsmouth, N. H.: _Magazine of American History, Dec., 1877, p. 759; Charles Sumner, Works, III. 177._