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Colonial Life
Historical Fiction Story

Jack Williams, a young English born lad, had a chance to come to America. He had many different reason and personal opinions on why he wanted to leave his old life and start over new. The main reason was to leave his alcoholic father. His mother died when she had him. He also wanted religious freedom, but didn’t have a whole lot of opinions and disbeliefs about religion. Jack was 17 years old when he got the opportunity to board a vessel headed to America. He wasn’t very good at much and his idea was to make a living selling fish in the city that ship was headed to, Williamsburg, Virginia. He left England on his journey to America in 1760, and never came back.

When he arrived in America, he loved it immediately. He took all of his saving and spent it on a little cottage right next to a fish filled river. He immediately started fishing and made good money doing so. A bonus of being a fisherman as that he didn’t have to spend his money on food. After three months of his fishing business, he was making a very good profit. So he decided to move onto a larger estate. His business continued to prosper. He moved from a low class to a mid class citizen. He then expanded his business with another successful Virginia fisherman. Together they expanded their business to other cities and towns in the east coast of Virginia. Soon enough he and his partner became two of the richest men in Virginia and moved up to become high-class citizens.

After he became rich he wound up getting married at age 21. After that he had 8 children of his own and they helped him with his fishing. He bought an even bigger piece of property right by the docks, and in that house he managed to fit his wife, kids, 3 brothers, 1 sister, and his aunt and uncle. Jack enjoyed his life simply because he did not do much. He had slaves catching all the fish, the women cooking and cleaning, and his children attended colonial school. As for Jack himself, well he sat back by the fire, smoking a pipe, simply enjoying himself.

Revolution
**HFC Research** **Source**: Hart, Dianne, and Bert Bower. //History alive!: the United States through industrialism.// Palo Alto, Calif.: Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, 2011. Print. **Topic:** Defeat in New York

“...American and British armies met in Brooklyn, New York, for what promised to be a decisive battle.” (91)

“In two days of fighting, the British lost only 377 men, while the Americans lost 1,407.” (91)

“...British forces chased the Americans out of New York, through New Jersey, and finally across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.” (91)

**Source:** N/A. “War for Independence, August 27, 1776. “//Battle of Long Island// (2007): 1. Web. 10 Nov 2010. 

Battle of Brooklyn or Battle of Long Island, 2 different names, same battle.

General George Washington then fled Manhattan and took his army across the East River. “Washington...planned a retreat to Manhattan.”

Although the British could’ve blew out the American army, for some reason they didn’t. “...British did not use their superiority on land and sea to strike a potentially lethal blow against the Patriot cause.”

Grant Wilson November 22, 2010 Story Plot P.7 Wilson 1 Story Plot **Exposition**: New York, 1775. Jack Williams, the main character, is a local fisherman who is fed up with British ruling.

**Rising Action**: People are getting heated up about the British. Battle start to break off which eventually leads to a war.

**Crisis**: Jack and his best friend Landon fight as minutemen in the war. They wanted to fight because of their beliefs on independence.

**Climax**: His best friend, a fellow fisherman, gets shot bad and falls to his death in the snow during the Battle of Brooklyn.

**Falling Action**: Jack carries his friend’s dead body back to the river in which they fish out of. He then dumps him into the river and says goodbye.

**Dénouement**: Jack resigns from the army and America eventually wins.

I want the reader to know how war can make people second guess their beliefs back in that time from a social standpoint.