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Day in the Life

Oct 10, 1857

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October 10, 1857 ~ Saturday

10^th I spent the day with 2 men grinding sugar cane I worked
vary hard and was unwell all day. Mrs Woodruff made a custard
and all of us who partook of it appeared poisioned we became vary
sick & vomited vary hard we could not learn any way that it could
have been poisoned ownly a spoon was boiled in ~~tha~~it that was silver
and it was supposed that nitrad of silver came from the spoon
which was boiled in it. I was vary sick through the night