We know that some Muslims were enslaved and transported to Virginia but not how many or for certain when. My excellent friend Ed Bond, who has written the only useful book on seventeenth-century Virginia religious history, called my attention several years ago to this obscurely placed but interesting anecdote: John Clayton, The Defence of a Sermon, Preach'd upon the Receiving into the Communion of the Church of England, the Honourable Sir Terence Mac-Mahom, Baronet, and Christopher Dunn: Converts from the Church of Rome (Dublin, 1701), Preface. When sometime I was Minister of James City in Virginia . . . I Baptiz'd also many Negroes, which had been there lamentably Neglected. But I got my Brother, who was a most Eminent Lawyer, to take off one grand Obstruction that had Obtain'd, Viz, a Notion, that Negroes being Baptiz'd were immediately Free. For their Masters would rather hazard their Salvation, trusting God Almighty with their Souls in the other World, than loose the Benefit of their Service in this; as they would often too profanely express it. But above, my Conversion of a Turk was most Remarkable, Sir William Berkley the Governour, and greatest Patriot that that poor Country ever knew, bought three Turkish Slaves, and being as good as great; after sometime he endeavoured to Convert them; and to encourage them, he offered them their Freedom, and to give each of them a Plantation, if they would be Christians, two of them embraced the Faith, but the third was Obstinate, when Sir William had laboured much, and tried all Methods, but in vain; pleas'd with the generous spirit of the Man, who told him; Worldly Advantage and Freedom, are the greatest Temptations this World affords, and therefore it is doubtless thy Conscience, and a noble Resolution, makes thee so steady to thy Principle, and no Man shall ever suffer under me for being Honest, and sincere. God give thee Grace, and his enlightning Spirit in his own due time, and in the mean season I'll give thee thy Freedom and a Plantation, as well as to the others; where this Man lived a Mahometan for many Years, till he was fourscore years Old; when it pleas'd God to work so effectually by my means, that I Converted him, and Baptiz'd him publickly, in the Church at James City, the Honourable Lady Berkley, Widow to Sir William, being God-mother, &c. he continued very devout, and came nigh 20 Miles to Church, generally every Sunday, as long as I continued in that Country.