Several bought Servants belonging to the People of this Province, being enlisted by the recruiting Officers, were put on board the Minerva for Jamaica: But the Captain believing himself liable to be sued by their Masters if he carried them off, ordered them ashore again; and they refusing to leave the Vessel, the Sheriff by a Warrant from the Chief Justice went yesterday on board with his Officers, took them all and carried them to Prison.

As the enlisting of Servants is on all hands allow’d to be a great Hardship to the Province, ’tis a Pleasure to observe, that the Proceedings of the Officers in that Respect are now not countenanc’d by the Government.