7 Dwight, Travels, I, 368-69.

8 Edmund B. O’Callaghan, ed., Documentary History of the State of New York (4 vols., Albany, 1849-51), I, 678; see also Martha Jane Gibson, “Early Connecticut Pronunciation: Guilford, 1639-1800; Branford, 1644-1800” (thesis, Yale, 1933); Claude Mitchell Simpson, “The English Speech of Early Rhode Island, 1636-1700” (thesis, Harvard, 1936); and Tjossem, “New England Pronunciation before 1700.”
   There were also individual variations. New England’s Puritan poet Edward Taylor constructed his rhyme schemes with a distinct Leicester accent. Taylor was a comparative latecomer to New England, having been born in Sketchley, Leicestershire, probably in the year 1642; he emigrated in 1668. See Bernie Eugene Russell, “Dialectical and Phonetic Features of Edward Taylor’s Rhymes: A Brief Study Based upon a Computer Concordance of his Poems (6 vols., thesis, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1973); also Karl Keller, A Concordance to the Poems of Edward Taylor (Washington, 1973), and Donald E. Stanford, ed., The Poems of Edward Taylor (New Haven, 1960.

9 Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam (London, 1647).