January 29, 2013

I was still surprised, and shocked about what I witnessed with Ned head getting cut off. The most shocking thing I saw was when the house was getting burned down. I went down to Dr. Hobart office to talk to him, and to see if he could get me something. Dr. Hobart gave me a huge mug of rum. As I was there we talked about Dan Starr. We talked about how someone had killed him. Mother said the war was making the men go crazy. Some of the men always been crazy, so if they get more crazy just because of the war that will not be a very good thing. It’s hard to believe how many people are getting killed. My father is one of them that have gotten killed. He died from being sick on the ship that they threw him on. If one person got sick it would spread fast. The conditions on the ship are horrible. It was dirty. The only thing that you got for food was slop. Mother said that he was buried somewhere in Long Island, and that we would go down there to get him a grave stone. I miss my brother Sam, but now I have someone else to miss. My father will always be in my family's heart! I will always love my father even though he is gone.

January 25, 2013

Hi everyone it is nice to see you all again! Let me keep on telling you what is going in my life right now. Sam is still in war and that fight that mother and father had still gets me kind of sad just because I want to write back to him so bad. Right now the ground is covered in snow. I saw it when I got out of bed this morning. That means there is a cold journey ahead for father and I. Father and I said are goodbye’s to the cousins. Then we started to begin our journey back home. Father rides ahead of us to look for the cow-boys. I just kept it safe and stay in the wagon. If father sees the cow-boys, he will ride back or shout for us to hide. He doesn’t like being alone much. Father also always checks for places to hide, or making sure that the cow-boys aren’t sneaking up behind us. That's what I'm scared about if the cow-boys see us what will the do to us? Will they shot, chase after us, or just ride away. I hope that it is the last one but I think it might be the first two things I said. I just hope no one gets hurts on this ride back to home.

 

January 23, 2013

Things are going bad still. Sam writes us all the time but we never write back to him. My mom is feeling bad that we don’t write back to him because she thinks that if he writes to us that we should write back to him. Father doesn’t think that why though. He is saying that we should not write back to Sam because he says that he needs to learn a lesson. “He is still just a boy.” father said. “Sam is not a boy anymore.” Mother said. “He is only sixteen years old that is still a boy.” They were talking about it for a while now and I hope that mother wins this fight. Mother told father that he is seventeen, then she ask father how long he was when he moved out of the house. “That’s different!” he growled. They started to fight again. The fight when on and on about how Sam is a kid or he is not a kid anymore. “Let him do what he wants to Life.”  I never knew how much my father is missing Sam that much until now.

 

January 21, 2013

Hey, once again things are not looking so good for me and let me tell you why.  Right now I’m going to go give a letter to a guy in Fairfield for Mr. Heron. On my way there I saw Betsy. She was looking at me kind of weird. She asks me what I was holding in my hand.  I put the letter in my shirt. I told her nothing. " I'm just on my why to go fishing". She asks me why I’m going to Fairfield to go fishing. “I couldn’t get any fish where I always go fishing” I said. Betsy then look at my shirt “Who’s that letter for?” she asked. “Is it for your girlfriend” “No its not  for my girlfriend, it’s for…” I stopped I couldn’t tell her that it was from Mr. Heron. When she started to walk with me we started to talk. We talked about silly things for awhile, then I said Mr. Heron name. That’s when she knew that the letter was from Mr. Heron. That’s when the fight started. She tried to take the letter out of my shirt, but I took hold of her hand. “You can’t have it” I yelled. She wouldn’t listen because next thing I knew I was on the ground. With her on top of me fighting over the letter. She was stronger than I thought for a girl.She kept on trying to get the letter from out of my shirt. “Give me that letter Tim!” “No never!” She wouldn't let go of my shirt. I kept trying to keep it away from her. Betsy was on top of me so I move to the side of the ground so I could get of hold of her. When got of hold of her I slammed her head has hard as I could to the ground. That’s when she slapped me across the face. For a girl she slaps hard.  When I was holding my face she grab the letter, and started to run down the street. I ran after her. She was opening the letter while she was running down the street. She started to read the letter. When she was done reading the letter see put it on to the ground. She didn't stop after that, she just on running. I pick up the letter. I started to read it. I couldn't believe it! Betsy was right!

January 18,2013

Well hello there everyone!  Let me keep on telling you what’s going on right now in my life. Things are looking bad for are town because of the war. It looks like no one cares that people are dieing everyday because of the war. My brother Sam went to fight against the family. I don't think I will ever know why he did that. I just wish that Sam would have stayed here with us. I really wished that because I don't to lose him. Instead of fighting and having a chance of dieing. I miss him so much. Its finally summer thank god. I’m doing what I always do during the summer. Working all day every day. First I do chores outside in the barn then I go do chores inside for my mom. Mother always tells me that eating in a clean house is better. I always think she is just telling me that so I do things around the house more. While I’m doing chores my Mother and Father are working in the tavern. We sell so many things in there. The reason why I like it is because so many people have stories to tell. Betsy Read comes up a lot to buy thread or cloth. She  also comes up to hear the stories. One day Betsy told me that Sam was going to come back for a few days. She told me that I could not tell my father that Sam is going to come back for a few days. She doesn't want me to tell him because  father would look for Sam, and make him stay home. I had to swear to her or she wouldn't tell me when he will be coming back. So I did even if I didn’t want to. I waited and waited for Sam to come back, but he never did by now months of past. Sam is still not here, maybe he won’t be coming back. One day Betsy came by the house to get some beer. She ask me if I was going to go to school. I told her “Yes I’m going to be going to school."That's when she shook her head at me.  At first I didn't know why she shook her head, she always answers me. I stop and thought for awhile, and that’s when I knew it. Sam was back!

January 15, 2013

Hello! My name is Tim. I'm going to tell you about my family. I'm also going to tell you what is going on with my life. I have a brother named Sam. He wants to go to war and fight against the family. My family goes to church every Sunday to show our respect to God. I have lived in a town called Redding my whole life. This is where my father was born. Father has lived here his whole life too. My mother on the other hand, was not born in Redding; she was born in New York. My mother’s name is Susannah, my father‘s name is Eliphalet, but everyone just calls him Life. My brother's name is Sam. He just got back from Yale.  The reason Sam wants to fight against us is because he doesn’t think that we are free. He wants things to be different. Father and Sam always fight. When Sam told us that he was going to fight Father got really mad. I have never seen Father that mad before. It was kind of scary seeing him like that. Sam had his suit on that he was going to be fighting with. That's when father told him to take it off because no one in this house will fight against the British. Sam wouldn’t take off the suit. Sam said that he wants to be free, and he is done living a life that he has his whole life. I really don’t know what Sam means by "I’m done living a life like this”. I love the life I’m living. Well, sometimes I don"t because there are lots of rules we have to go by. My father got really mad when Sam said that, and he wouldn't take off the suit. My father told Sam that he could take off the suit and stay at the house, or he could not take off the suit and get out of the house. Sam just looked at Father for awhile. Then he opened the door and left. I couldn’t believe what I just saw. How could Sam just leave the family like that? The weirdest part was when Sam left Father started to cry. Father had never cried before, or if he has, I never seen him. The worst part of the whole thing was that Sam was probably going to fight in the war no matter what we do to try to stop him. That means I might lose my big brother to the war!