Fifth Entry: August 18th, 1834

Lillith and Elly have always been mischievous, and today they ripped apart their mother’s dress. This only added to the anxiety to Mary’s mind these days, as she told me that the townsfolk would be coming for us. I told her not to worry about it. Adeline asked if we had been fighting about this. I told her no, but in reality, our relationship’s been a bit strained after what happened to the Abbotts.

Sixth Entry: August 25th 1834

My life is over as I know it. Late last night, I was awoken by Adeline who pulled me out of bed. She revealed to me that the homestead was on fire.

I woke the family and we found that the townsfolk were burning the place down. Mary had that look in her eyes of pure terror and ran around yelling we had to leave. I huddled the children around her and took them outside. I ran back in the house and grabbed as many supplies as we could need.

I had grabbed at best, a week worth of food, a flintlock with many bullets, a case of clothes that anxious Mary had packed in case of this event, a gallon of water, our emergency stash of money, and of course this book. I returned outside and saw many hateful people surrounding my family. I escorted them pass the burning barn and onto our carriage where I set up our horse.

We rode off as the people, mainly men chased us away. I turned around and looked at our farm one last time. We’ve been riding for hours now, not quite sure where we were going. Adeline took over steering as I took my rest. I suppose we’ll head north like the Abbotts, and look for a better life as well.

Seventh Entry: August 28th 1834

We’ve been riding our woes away for two days now. We have been completely stressed and tuckered out by our sudden journey. My wife has not been talking to me. She is mad that I had not listened to her.

I have fallen into a bit of depression. Everything I have ever known was now gone, a second time. The children are bored, but doing fairly well. We did find a town to stay in today however. A place named New York.

We stayed at an inn today for a fee. Tomorrow we aim to buy more supplies for the trip, and a map, that way we can know where the dickens we are going. Adeline seems very distant recently. She seems very unpleased that we uprooted from our healthy life. I decided to sit down and chat with her while Mary and the other children slept.

She asked why we were still loyal to the crown despite us actually never seeing the crown ourselves. She told me we should just turn our backs on the crown and life would be better. In return I told her a story about my flintlock.

It was a present from a British man who was fighting for the crown. He saved me from a bear attack one time. I told her when I think of the crown, I think of the good people who serve it, like the man who saved me. He gave the gun to me as a present and had taught me to hunt. Adeline seemed to understand, but I am not quite sure if it got through to her.