ether and purchased of said
Bingham ten acres of land, lying at Haddam neck, where I now reside.
On this land I labored with great diligence for two years, and shortly
after purchased six acres more of land contiguous to my other. One
year from that time I purchased seventy acres more of the same man,
and paid for it mostly with the produce of my other land. Soon after
I bought this lot of land, I set up a comfortable dwelling house on my
farm, and built it from the produce thereof. Shortly after I had much
trouble and expense with my daughter Hannah, whose name has before
been mentioned in this account. She was married soon after I redeemed
her, to one Isaac, a free negro, and shortly after her marriage fell
sick of a mortal disease; her husband a dissolute and abandoned
wretch, paid but little attention to her in her illness. I therefore
thought it best to bring her to my house and nurse her there. I
procured her all the aid mortals could afford, but notwithstanding
this she fell a prey to her disease, after a lingering and painful
endurance of it.

The physician's bills for attending her during her illness amounted to
forty pounds. Having reached my fifty-fourth year, I hired two negro
men, one named William Jacklin, and the other Mingo. Mingo lived with
me one year, and having received his wages, run in debt to me eight
dollars, for which he gave me his note. I procured a warrant, took
him, and requested him to go to Justice Throop's of his own accord,
but he refusing, I took him on my shoulders, and carried him there,
distant about two miles. The justice asking me if I had my prisoner's
note with me, and replying that I had not, he told me that I must
return with him and get it. Accordingly I carried Mingo back on my
shoulders, but before we arrived at my dwelling, he complained of
being hurt, and asked me if this was not a hard way of treating our
fellow creatures. I answered him that it would be hard thus to treat
our honest fellow creatures. He then told me that if I would let him
off my shoulders, he had a pair of silver shoe-buckles, one shirt and
a pocket handkerchief, which he would turn out to me. I agreed, and
let him return home with me on foot; but the very following night, he
slipped from me, stole my horse and has never paid me even his note.
The other negro man, Jacklin, being a comb-maker by trade, he
requested me to set him up, and promised to reward me well with his
labor. According