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VI. jln Account of the White Negro foew7i 
before the Royal Society : In a L,ettcr to the 
Right Honourable the Karl of Morton, 
P ref dent of the Royal Society ^ fro?n James 
Parfons, M. D, F. R. S. 
My Lord, 
Read Jan. 31, | M H E white boy, who was brought 
> 7 ^ 5 - Jl^ before this learned Society on 
Thurfday laft, came to me with his mafter on Sun- 
day afternoon ; and according, to the defire of your 
lordfhip and the gentlemen prefent, I made the ne- 
celhary inquiry into the feveral circumftances relative 
to his being born of black parents, and find the fol- 
lowing notices very fatisfaftory ; to which I have 
added fome obfervations which, I hope, will not be 
foreign to the fubjedl. 
It appears that the father and mother of this boy 
were brought down above three hundred miles from 
an in-land country to the Gold Coaft in Africa, and 
were bought among a great number of others, and 
put on board a flaip bound to Virginia j where they 
arrived in the year 1755. 
They became the property of colonel Benjamin 
Chambers, of the Falling Springs, in Cumberland 
County, in Pennfilvania; and are now employed upon 
an eftate in Virginia, which the colonel pofefTes in 
right of his lady, whom he married in that province, 
although 
