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Miss Mary Finch, Isabel and Ruth's master, passes away the day before the story starts.
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Mr. Robert takes Isabel and Ruth and sell them to Mr. and Mrs. Lockton, who are wealthy Loyalists.
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Isabel, Ruth, and the Locktons leave Rhode Island on the Hartsborn.
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Isabel, Ruth, and the Locktons arrive in New York. Isabel and Ruth are very surprised.
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Isabel meets and gets to know Curzon when they are going to fetch water.