Barbados, and was around 33 years old. Colden further elaborated on her personality, attempting to market this enslaved woman to Mr Jordan: ‘She has a Natural aversion to all strong Liquors... Were it not for her Alusive Tongue her sullenness & the Custome of the Country that will not allow us to use our Negroes as you doe in Barbados when they Displeas you I would not have parted with her.’ Colden claimed that she 'would make as good a slave as any in the Island after a litle of your Discipline… when she sees that she cannot avoid it’, citing the reputation for greater cruelty among West Indian slaveowners than in colonial New York state. He claims that he 'could have sold her here to good advantage but I have several other of her Children which I value… if she should stay in this country she would spoil them.’ Colden deliberately separated this woman from her children in order to demoralise her and alienate her from her own children, and proposed to exchange her for a cargo of 'white muscovado' sugar. In 1721, he further ventured to purchase three slaves. Writing to a Dr. Home on 7 December, Colden asked him to 'Please to buy mee two negro men about eighteen years of age[.] I designe them for Labour & would have them strong & well made[.] Please likewise to buy mee a negro Girl of about thirteen years old[...] my wife has told you that she designes her Cheifly to keep the children & to sow & theirfore would have her Likely & one that appears to be good natured.' This letter shows that Colden's wife, Alice Chrystie Colden, was also directing this purchase, and he further stipulated that she take on the 'risque' for one of the three enslaved people, in order to save on import fees ('that wee may have the Less trouble with the duty'). Personal life In November 1715, while visiting Scotland, Colden married Alice Chrystie of Kelso; together they had ten children, including: Alexander Colden (1716–1784), who married Elizabeth Nicolls (1720–1774), the daughter of Richard Nicholls (b. 1690). David Colden who died as an infant. Elizabeth Alice Colden (1721–1785), who married Peter DeLancey (1705–1770), the son of merchant Stephen DeLancey and brother of Gov. James DeLancey. Cadwallader Colden, Jr. (1722–1797), who married Elizabeth Ellison (c. 1726-1815), the daughter of Thomas Ellison. Jane Colden