grandma, and his brother, Levi. He had a girlfriend named Ruth Simmons. Adam went on a

night walk with Ruth and they kissed. Adam said he loved her and walked her home. They

That night he went to sleep peacefully. But he was woken up in the middle of the

night when Levi came in to Adam's bed after having a nightmare. They were in bed together

for a while when Levi heard the trotting of a horse. Soon a young man pulled up in front of

Buckman's Tavern nearby. He called for everybody in the town to come out. So Adam and his

dad went to the common. The rider said the British were coming! But he said that they

another close encounter with Redcoats and ran away to find a man named Solomon Chandler.

felt his father was really in heaven. Levi told Adam how the Redcoats ransacked the town and

or a while, because of their huge slow-moving army. So Adam

father was shot twice and died right away. Then the lines broke up. Everybody ran away.

When Adam first viewed the body upstairs in the house he was sad and upset. But he

water and then started off for the common. When Adam got there all his friends were

had carried Father to the house and he was lying upstairs.

ready. His father said that they were trying to prevent a war, and not to cause one. They

events. After talking to Granny about the fighting in Boston, Adam went to bed uncertain of

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