https://www.wheatleypeters.xn--lamh-bpa.org/files/original/dcdcad2dcc59a8ff7c4943cae059f84c.jpg 784c11d1fde82068e69c78e9faa82b81 https://www.wheatleypeters.xn--lamh-bpa.org/files/original/0a66bc57151364ed088a7adb7b7c70a1.jpg 274492eb40fdb650d6c86790e541cda5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dinah Cubber Description An account of the resource I the Deponent of Lawfull age Testify & Say, That when John Peters was a Servant to my late Master Lieut. John Wilkins he at a time when I was present provokd my Master with Impudent Saucy Language & he Box'd his Ear, but the aforesaid Peters rose upon him & seiz'd him by the Throat & push'd him backwards upon a Bed in the room & then went out of the House, but he told me the Next day that had I not made a Noise he would have done more to the old Dog. And at Another time upon his saucily giving my Mistress the lie, she attempted to strike him with a yard stick which stood handy, but he got hold of it & twisted it out of her hands & left the House[.] [F]or these & many more such Impudent Actions I have often heard my late Master say he sold him.-- After which & Especially after he liv’d at Boston and obtained his freedom he has constantly visited the House and has been full of his flattering pretentions of regard to my late Master & my present Mistress & after the Death of my Master he made my Mistress believe that he was very rich, & that all he had was at her Service, he likewise offerd to wait upon her & assist her in Settling the Estate and paying the debts, & that he would do anything for her that would add to her Comfort, but always took Care to fill his saddle baggs when he went away. In April 1780, He moved his family up to my Mistresses House after which I soon saw a difference in his treatment of my Mistress from what had been before, not knowing that he had a deed of the place I wonderd to hear him say such & such persons who used to frequent the House should come there no more & making a New disposition of things Indoor & out. My Mistress at one time complainined to him that he kept too many Horses to have good feed for the Cows[.] She told him that she would sell a Colt which was hers he then told my mistress he was not so clear in that & that whither she knew it or no, he would tell her that She could dispose of Nothing without his Liberty. I soon learnt he had a Deed of the whole place, & I soon was told by him that I was his servant and that he would send me whare there was no Winter which he often repeated, while I found him determined to find fault with everything I did, and who with mistress were the only Cooks in the House, & my Mistress was the only one allowed to come to Table with him & his wife. On Aug’t. 16 my Mistress being absent he came in a great Rage from the Barn to the House with a Club in his hand protesting in awfull Language that he would kill me; on which I fled & left the House, and from his repeated threatnings I must say that am Still that at some unguarded time he will take away my life. [Dina Cuber, X her mark] Middleton November the 22nd 1780 [VERSO] [Sworn to on Dec. 6, 1780, before Justice of the Peace Amos Putnam. Taken at the request of Benjamin Wilkins Jr.; John Peters was notified “but did not attend at the time of this Caption.”] [Note: Cubber’s deposition, along with that of Widow Naomi Wilkins, are in a different handwriting than Amos Putnam, who was the scribe for most of the depositions in the 1780 appeal.] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived [proofed w/CS 9/4) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Nov. 22, 1780