![]() ![]() ![]() She did the proper cooking, and I did near everything else, like washing pots and plates and beating eggs till my arms fell off for Madam's almond jumbles and plum cakes with icing. Since Becky lived in a boardinghouse on Oliver Street, it fell to me to wake first and build up the fire. The days started early in the Lockton kitchen. Petition for freedom from a group of slaves to Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage, His Majesty's Council, and the House of Representntatives, we were unjustly dragged by the cruel hand of power from our dearest friends and sum of us stolen.and Brought hither to be made slaves for Life in a Christstian land Thus are we deprived of every thing that hath a tendency to make life even tolerable. we have in common With all other men a naturel right to our freedoms without Being depriv'd of them by our fellllow men. ![]() Wednesday, May 29- Thursday, June 6, 1776 ![]()
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