human
That such slaves must have been rare, however, is plain from his constant complaints about the difficulty of procuring
gpt
some of which we have already quoted. His spelling of the word
human
shows that the New England pronunciation of that word had been brought from the old country. He also uses the word
gpt
for kine, and the like, precisely as our farmers do now. There is one very comical passage in a letter of the 2nd of August, 1660, where he says:
human
There hath been a motion by some, the chief of the town, (New London) for my keeping an ordinary, or rather under the notion of a tavern which, _though it suits not with my genius_, yet am almost persuaded to accept for some good grounds. Tinker's modesty is most creditable to him, and we wish it were more common now. No people on the face of the earth suffer so much as we from impostors who keep inconveniences,