The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons: To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans http://docsouth.unc.edu/nell/nell.html LOYALTY OF AN AFRICAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. Some of the colored citizens, in 1796, instituted at Boston the African Society. Its objects were benevolent ones, as set forth in the preamble, which also expressed its loyalty as follows: --"Behaving ourselves, at the same time, as true and faithful citizens of the commonwealth in which we live, and that we take no one into the Society who shall commit any injustice or outrage against the laws of their country." I subjoin the names of the members of the "African Society." Cato Gardner is on this list.