this note to him as one that was good and would be paid.  One of his best friends has since told me that there was more honor among horse-thieves than this man had shown towards me.  I put into the business between four and five thousand dollars, worked hard almost a year, and have received about five hundred dollars. ——­ is trying to scare me by threatening to sue me for perjury; so that if he could make me fool enough to pay the debts of ——­ & Co., he would have just so much more to put into his own pocket.  When he can get a grand jury to find a true bill against me for fraud or perjury, I will promise to go to Wethersfield and stay there the remainder of my life, without any further trial.  After all that I have said, I think of him just as all his neighbors do; for they have told me that it was the common talk among them, when I first went into his factory, that he would in some way cheat me out of every dollar that I put into his hands.  It would take just about as much evidence to prove that young crows would be black when their feathers are grown, as it would to satisfy the community that these statements are true, especially where he is known.  For knavery, untruthfulness, and wickedness, I have never seen anything, in all my business experience of forty years, that will compare with this.  He would not have taken such a course with me once, but he took advantage of my age and misfortunes to commit these frauds, thinking that I could not defend myself, and that he could defraud and crush me.

I had paid every dollar of my money into this business which I had at that time, and had nothing to live on through the winter.  But John Woodruff in his kindness, raised money enough for me to live on through the winter, and the following spring I moved to New Haven.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE WOOSTER PLACE CHURCH.—­GROWTH OF THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS IN NEW HAVEN.

In order to have my history complete I must give my reason for building the Wooster Place Church, as my motives have been misconstrued by many persons, I will make a short statement of what I know to be true.  It is well known that with the exception of one, all the Congregational churches in New Haven, were located west of the centre of the city.  The majority of the inhabitants lived in the eastern section.  Meeting after meeting was called by the different churches to consider the importance of building a church in the eastern part.  It was strongly advocated by the ministers and many others, that this part of the city was rapidly filling up, a great deal of manufacturing was carried on there, and the strangers who were constantly coming in would fall into other denominations.  I heard their speeches advocating this course with great pleasure, as I lived in the eastern part of the city, had a long distance to go to attend church, and nearly all the workmen in my employ lived in the same section.  The church which I have mentioned