Farming In The Middle Colonies Case Study

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Dear, Humphrey I left about two years ago from your house as an indentured servant to go to Jamestown and soon, I was able to establish myself in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and now I am having an amazing life with my family. At my farm, I grow the biggest crop in the middle colonies, wheat, and I’m earning a lot of money from just this crop. To add on, my daughter likes animals so much, that she begged me for cows and pigs, so I have harder work, but the animals make plowing easier. Once in a while, I go to the market in Philadelphia and there is so much fighting that sometimes I feel like that I am in a street boxing ring. Unlike the many people, I don't have tiles, but hard wooden slabs. In the middle colonies, I can be whatever religion

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