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came over, he would fometimes tear his bed clothes to pieces, which 

 it was long before he was reconciled to. He has never, (at leaft 

 fince his prefent mafter has known him), fhown any attention to 

 women ; and I am told he never did, except when he was purpofely 

 and jocofely forced into an amour. 



*' He has run away feveral times fmce he has been at Broadway, 

 but not fince he has been with his prefent mafter. He was taken up 

 for a fpy in Scotland, in 1745, or 1746 : As he was unable to fpeak, 

 they fuppofed him obftlnate, and he was going to be confined, and 

 was threatened with puniftiment for contumacy ; but a Lady, who 

 had feen him in England, told them who it was, and dired:ed them 

 where to fend him. Some fay he was found at Norfolk. When he 

 ran away from his mafters, he ufed to live on raw herbage, berries, 

 and young tender roots of trees. The old people at the Tivo Waters 

 told me a circumftance, which, as they could not, I think, have col- 

 lected from his information, may have only the authority of conjec- 

 tural tradition, that, when he ran away, he always followed the 

 courfe of the clouds. 



" Of the people who are about him, he is particularly attached to 

 his mafter. He will often go out with him and his men into the 

 field, and feems pleafed in being employed in any thing which can 

 aflift them. But he muft always have fome perfon to difedl: his ac- 

 tions, as you may judge by the following circumftance. Peter was 

 employed one day with his mafter in filling a dung-cart. His ma- 

 fter had occafion to go into the houfe for fomething, and left Peter 

 to finifh the work. The work was foon done. But Peter muft have 

 fomething to employ himfelf ; and he faw no reafon why he fhould 

 not be as ufefully employed in emptying the dung out as he was in 

 putting it into the cart. When his mafter came out, he found the 

 I cart 



