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he owned more than one hundred slaves, another measure of great wealth, whose labors made possible his whole way of life.
WINTER IN AMERICA was a trial British soldiers could never get used to, any more than they could adjust to the incessant clamor of frogs on spring nights or American mosquitoes or the absence of decent beer.
That the British were so “blind” to what was going on and the true state of his situation he considered nearly miraculous.
A score or more were Harvard graduates, and many were fourth- or fifth-generation Americans bearing some of the oldest names in the province, such as Coffin and Chandler.
