"Teamoh found that seeking shelter in New Bedford, meant living in a city with large numbers of fugitives, all looking for work.For a brief period he found work as a caulker, but in a hard New England winter, he was laid off and the increased competition for laboring jobs, reduced him to snow shoveling, with no winter clothes, loading and unloading coal, consequently he moved to Boston Massachusetts, where he was able to find work with his half brothers John William and Thomas.