Early Adulthood through death.
During her early adulthood Phillis became more and more popular with her poems. Shes was interviewed by 18 respected Bostonians to determine if she was capable of actually writing poems such as those in her book. She is granted her freedom in 1773 and her book was also published this same year. In 1774 her owner, Susanna dies and she is greatley saddened over this. In 1776 George Washington sends for her to meet him in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two years later she gets married to John Peters, John Wheatley dies, and her teacher Mary Lathrop dies. From 1779-1782 she has three children, although two died in infancy and the other as a toddler. In 1782 she moves back from Wilmington, Mass. to Boston, Mass. and works as a maid there. Her death was quite sad because she died pennliless, alone, and forgotten in a Boston Boarding house on December 5, 1784.