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George Cousins

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Journey of a LifetimeGeorge Cousins, watched the sun set over the Appalachain Mtns. to the West.  He wondered if the Indiains who lived in the highlands were watching his family's farm.  George hoped that his wife, Ellen, and their three children, would stay nearby the farm.  Tomorrow the last wagons would be leaving for Fort Dobbs, the British fort located 40 miles East of the farm.  It was the only British fort located in the mountains of Western North Carolina.  A good Christian settler, George feared the Indians,  the stories he had heard about them were terrifying.  He adjusted his tricorner hat, standard for the day in the colonies, and tightened the belt around his waist so that his thick well made trousers pulled against his skin.  As his boots trod across the fields of his farmland, he thought about his neighbors the Caldwells, killed in an Indian raid last year.  George hated the Indians,  they had broken the peaed   that had existed along the frontier the English colonies.  George just wanted his family to be safe in this traumatic time, a time when warfare had broken out on the American frontier.    He would do anything to make sure that his family was safe, even if that meant packing up, leaving their home, and making the long trip across the wilderness to Ft. Dobbs, a dangerous trip when hostilities had flared up. 

  George thought back to the time when he was a child.  Around the age of ten, George's uncle had been killed  in an Indian raid, a time when the Cherokee and English settlers were just becoming acquainted with each other's cultures and passions.  At the heart of this all was the desire to own land.  This desire by the English settlers greatly angered the Indians , who saw their ancestral homelands vanishing before their eyes!  From this time onward the two cultures would be at best "unfriendly" neighbors.  George could not put this memory out of his mind.  His deepest desire was to have a world where his children could grow old on their own land, live in peace and harmony, remain loyal subjects to the Crown, and have a better life than George and Ellen had lived. 

 

 

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