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Colonial Life
March 18, 1764 My name is Rosmary Carter, I am 16 years old. I am currently aboard the Marylou, a ship sending 500 people to the new world from my home in England. I am among my family of 7. My mother Jan, my father William, my two younger brothers James and Henry, my older sister Mary, and my twin sister Georgia. My family left England because my father said the church wasn’t good any more and we needed to be free. We are going to be joining Roger Williams in the colony of Rhode Island. If my life in the colony is as horrible as it is on the ship I will never survive. The people on the ship are sick and there is hardly any room for anyone. There isn’t even a washroom and I haven’t eaten a decent meal in over a month. And to make my matters worse when I arrive in the new world my mother says I’m going to have to marry one of the men there. She says that if I am to be a proper lady then I am to live with a rich and civilized man for his political position. But I do not wish to be married, especially if it is an arranged marriage. I wish to be married for love and for companionship not for money and power. This is not what makes love, feeling and emotion does. But apparently that does not matter. The captain says that we will be in the new world by the end of the month. Hopefully that is not that long from now.

Revolution

__Topic:__ Small Pox __Source:__ Gurley, Robert. "Smallpox History and the Revolutionary War." //Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network//. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. < [] >. · Small pox was a disease that spread through out North America and caused thousands of deaths during the Revolutionary War · It had a large effect on people during the time · The numbers were so high that it frightened many people and led to radical and strange ways to “prevent its spread” · “Inoculation was banned by several colonial administrations, and as a result (along with various degrees of exposure) different regions developed different immunity levels to the virus” (Gurley)
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__Topic:__ Cold Winters __Source:__ Moran, Donald N.. " Revolutionary War - Winter in New Jersey." //Welcome to the Revolutionary War Archives!// N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. < [] > · The winters caused people to grow ill with influenza and many other sicknesses · The winters also caused frost bite and to people who had little or no contact with the weather · Crops on many farms failed due to this terrible weather leaving many farms in trouble __ Source: __ Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. //History Alive!: The United States Through Industrialism.// Palo Alto, California.: Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, 2011. Print. · The winters also had a large impact on the American troops · The men training would train out in the snow bare foot, their feet turned black due to frost bite · Because of the lack of warm clothes in the colonies men would wear barley any protective clothing when training in the vicious weather


 * Outline:**

Main Character Abigail Randall Mother of 6 children; James, Oliver, Ella, Alice, Conner and Hope Lives on a farm in Georgia Both of her sisters are living on a farm in New York; Sarah and Mary Her husband, William, died recently fighting in the Revolutionary War Her brother, John, is still off fighting in the war Their crops are failing due to the past winter snow Four of the children have small pox With out her husband and brother around to help she feels alone Her brother dies in the war Her youngest daughter dies due to the pox She finds her self depressed and angry at her self because of the deaths that have been around her Her sisters and her children help Abigail cope with the pain Abigail finds inner peace And continues to love and care for her family on their small farm Also their crops begin to flourish again
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 * Rising Action**
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 * Falling Action**
 * Denouement**

**THEME:** Social, relation ship between brothers and sisters