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the great relief he felt at being no longer liable to be called upon to 

 sign permits for the importing of slaves. 



This remained the position till 1833, when the Imperial Act removed 

 all remains of the .system. Before the passage of the Act of July, 

 1793. some of the States of the Union had passed similar Acts, e.g. 

 Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. New York followed in 1799 with a 

 provision for gradual emancipation, which was followed by complete 

 abolition in that State, 4th July, 1827. Mr. Hamilton cited several 

 cases of slave advertisements, notably that of the Administrator, Hon. 

 Peter Russell, who at York, on 19th February, 1800, offered Peggy, aged 

 40, and Jupiter, aged 15, for sale, the woman for $150 and the boy for 

 $200, " payable in three years secured by bond, but one-fourth less would 

 be taken for ready money." Mr. Russell's sister, Miss Elizabeth, had a 

 pure negress named Amy Pompadour, who attended her mistress dressed 

 in a red turban. Miss Russell made her a present to Mrs. Captain 

 Denison, of York, who was the great- grandmother of several of 

 Toronto's well-known citizens. Amy had a son, born during a visit 

 of the Duke of Manchester to the town, who was named in memory 

 of the duke and Mrs. Denison, Duke Denison, and lived to the middle 

 of the century. 



In the Niagara Herald several advertisements are found relating to 

 slaves ; so in the Gazette and Oracle early in the century — one refers 

 to an Indian slave or Pani. Mr. Charles Field, in the Herald of 

 25th August, 1802, forbids all persons harbouring his " Indian slave 

 Sal." Messrs. W. & J. Crooks, of West Niagara, in October 1797, adver- 

 tised in the Gazette and Oracle " that they wanted to purchase a negro 

 girl of good disposition from 7 to 12 years of age." It is interesting 

 to note that these beautiful grounds of the Chautauqua Assembly were 

 the old Crooks farm. On it still, within sight of the amphitheatre where 

 we are now assembled, is the frame buff-painted family farm-house or 

 homestead. Among the records in the register of St. Mark's parish 

 church, Niagara, is the following certificate : — 



" Married, 1797, Feb'y 5, Moses and Phoebe, negro slaves of Mr 

 Secretary Jarvis." 



Another noted Niagara citizen. Colonel Thomas Butler, advertised in 

 the U. C. Gazette of July 4, 1793, offering $5 reward for his "negro man 

 servant named John." 



An account wms given of Solicitor-General Gray and his slaves, Dor- 

 inda Baker and her children, Simon and John. Mr. Gray lost his life on 

 the schooner Speedy, a Government vessel wrecked on Lake Ontario 



