The Secret Life of a Women Named Rachel Williams, the Real Reason for Paul Reveres Ride.

                                                                                                  1775 April 12
Dear Diary,
    It has been a long but beautiful day. It was sunny most of the day, but then it started getting cloudy and chilly.  I had to make all the medicine that I had run out of. One of my patients came in today to pick up some things that he had ordered just a while ago, but my apprentice had sold it to another patient. It was so frustrating. The medicine was to treat smallpox and it takes awhile to make, so he had to come back to get it. I also overheard some customers talking to each other about some kind of signals, something to do with Paul Revere and the Redcoats. I wish I would have heard the whole thing because now it has me wondering.  
    Today I paid my surgeon some of his 60 pounds and my other men and women some of their 40 pounds. One of my patients came in today to ask if he needed to have a license to be an apothecary.  I told him no, but I told him he needed to get his medical degree and it is really hard to get. I told him a lot of people don't even make it halfway through medical school. I told him that it is a good thing that he is a male because it is really hard for a female to get through medical school and become an apothecary.
    On my way home I went down King Street. When I got home from work, my children Sara and Henry were upstairs with Paul and Allen. When my husband David came back home, I was in the kitchen making dinner and hanging the clothes. Whenever he comes in the house it always smells good.  Tonight I am going to make chicken pie and johnny cakes. David always says that I make it best. When I walked in the house, Allen came in the room and gave me a big hug. He is  always where I am when I am in the house. David told me today that when he went down to Long Wharf he overheard men saying that the British were sending 5,000 more troops and that the Sons Of Liberty were having secret meetings.
                                                                                                           -Rachel
                                                                                                  
                                                                                                    1775 April 19
Dear Diary,
    Today I woke up to Allen crying for me and I think he is coming down with pneumonia. But it was another beautiful and sunny day. At work, some customers were telling me about Paul Revere and the ride he took last night. He was with William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott during the ride. They left at eleven o'clock last night to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British regulars were coming. The British were coming to get Adams and Hancock, so they had to get out of there. Before he left, someone put up lanterns in the Church House. They left Boston to come here to Lexington, or go somewhere where the British wouldn't find them, but Revere got caught by two British soldiers. I hope that he gets away and that the British don't kill him.
    Today I made a house call for a new patient and she said it helped so much that I could go to her house.  What she needed, I did not have, so she had to come back in and get it at dusk before the shop closed. Then a while after I got back from the house call, David sent a message by sending Sara to the shop. The note said that Henry had pneumonia. When I went home and checked, he did have it, so David had to go back to the shop and get some more medicine, because I only brought enough home for Allen. Now Allen is becoming better and Henry gets it. I hope that the rest of the children do not get it. Tonight when I got home the children wanted more of the chicken pie so that is what we ate. They all loved it.
    Tonight we are going to have a gathering with some friends and talk about the fighting that has just begun. I am so afraid of the British coming in to all the houses. Life is so harsh these days with the fighting starting and the children getting sick. I cannot believe that the Minutemen are going to fight the British. The British soldiers might end up coming to my shop to get medicines to heal all the ones that have wounds, or the ones who are really sick. That will make the shop go better, but I hope we have enough ingredients for all the medicines David and I will need to make.
                                                                                                                -Rachel
                                                                                                  

                                                                                                   1775 April 30
Dear Diary,
    Today I woke up to Allen crying again for me, but when I got up he would not stop crying, so David tried to soothe him.  When he went in, Allen stopped crying. It was not sunny today, it was cloudy and chilly. Also, today I heard about the rest of the details from Lexington and Concord. Revere had got captured and had to go back to Lexington three times before he came back to Boston. The first time he went was to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock, the second time was after he had got captured, and the third and last time was when he had to go back and get a chest that Samuel Adams and John Hancock left behind. They needed it, so Revere had to go back and get it. It had important papers. While Revere was carrying the chest, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were shot. The British knew that the local militia had been hiding weapons and munitions underground. So the British went to find the militia, but the Patriots left before the British, so the British might not catch them.
    Today I just got some orders from a couple of the customers and they ordered some cooking spices, tobacco, toothbrushes, oil, and candles. But I did not have all of the cooking spices, so I had to put some together and I had go make some candles, but I had all the other things ordered. We were really busy today with all the patients getting sick and I had to make a house call to another new person. She has influenza and I had to go back to the shop to pick up the medicine that she needed, but it was already made. Another patient came in to get her remedy for influenza and I had to make it because we had none left. It looks like busy and tough days will be ahead for all of us.
                                                                                                                -Rachel