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I was born on September 16, 1863. My family was very proor and I lived on a land lords land. I was the oldest Son of six. Because I was the oldest son My parents exspected me to uphold the faimaly farm so I could continue to pay the rent to the land lord. My family were potato growers and had almost lost there land durring the potato famin.
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This year was exstreemly rainy. It rained for 63 days strait. Because of all of the rain the potato crop died so they could not be sold in the market. I had no money to pay the land lord so i was in debit. soon after i left with all my belonings and a little money.
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I arived in Ellis Island dirty and tired. I slowly moved through the long curving line heading to the health cheeck. when i reached the cheeck a man exsamined me and then escorted me to a nother room where I saw manny people in beds sick. I fugured since I was sick I would stay here untill i was better than be relesed into the US. I edded up staying at Ellis Island for three weeks.
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Once I was in New York I started serching for a job and housing. I foung housing in a tenements in the middle of the slum. but finding a job took me a wile longer because not many people would hire "Dirty Irish." But in the end I found a job in a Sweatshop. The work in the sweatshop was very hot, corouded, and Dangerous.
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I had finally made enough money to move wes and suport myself untill I had a substainibal 160 farm. I packed all of my things like My broun hat, my three pairs of clothes, the pickture of my family, and my boots. I asked around to see when the next wagon train was leaving. I found out the it woulb be leaving in on days time. the next day I met up with the wagon train and joined them. this was a very large wagon train.
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I had been traling for almost a year and I am very tired. Many people that are in my waggon train are gettin sick with sicknesses like cholera and malaria. I eventualy got cholera. I was puking and had watery diarrhea. I felt really bad and was woried because many people died from this disease. But evenculy I got better.
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Finaly after walking for what felt like a life time we made it to the west. When I arived I singed up to be in the race for the land. Afrer that I went to buy my self a horse. I bought a real fine horse, realy fast and beautiful. The nexed day lined up on the starting line and when the race started my horse and I shot out and planted our flag into the ground to clame my land. Finaly I had made it, i had my land.
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I had made A small log caben on my proporty. Also I had started my farm growing Corn, potatoes, lettuce, and tomatoes. I would Trade with the Indians or other Setlers the food that I did not need. Every thing had been going great until one year that had very a lot of snow in the winter, floods from snow melt and rain in the spring ,and then the summer was two hot; so that year the plats did not grow very well. Because of this 4/5 of my crops died.
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Because of the bad wheather i had nothing to trade. 3/4 of my crop died. So I had to just eat what I had and get by. most other farmers had the same problume. Even thought it was hard I'm very glad I decided to come to America.
