This Englishman had "long dwelt in Amsterdam" before deciding to move to America.  When we first meet him, he proffers a cup of medicine, and is labeled a "Black Man," or the devil in disguise by his wife.  He had sent that wife ahead of him to America, and when he was delay
This Englishman had "long dwelt in Amsterdam" before deciding to move to America.  When we first meet him, he proffers a cup of medicine, and is labeled a "Black Man," or the devil in disguise by his wife.  He had sent that wife ahead of him to America, and when he was delayed for two years after capture by Indians, he was presumed lost at sea.  He eventually arrives in Boston, taking up the profession of a "leech," or doctor, and rooming with Arthur Dimmesdale.  FTP, name this evil and vengeful husband of Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
This Englishman had "long dwelt in Amsterdam" before deciding to move to America.  
Roger Chillingsworth