Our Story

<BODY TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000FF VLINK=#FF0000 BGCOLOR=#D2FFD2 > <BASE TARGET="_top"> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s6 style='text-align: center;margin-left: 0mm;'> <IMG SRC="spoon_and_blade_i000010.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=219 HEIGHT=90 > </DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='color:#008000;font-family:"Arrr Matey BB";font-size:75pt;'><IMG SRC="spoon_and_blade_i00000a.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=386 HEIGHT=130 > </FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='color:#008000;font-family:"Arrr Matey BB";font-size:75pt;'></FONT><FONT style='font-size:15pt;'><B>The year is  1756. I am a Scotsman that fought in the battle of Culloden Moor on April 16, 1746. After the English killed as many of the highlanders and Jacobites they could find. I myself fled to Ireland in order to escape the butchery. I didn't have anything left in Scotland anyway as my first wife and child where killed by a plague years earlier. </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-size:15pt;'><B> </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-size:15pt;'><B> Nessa</B><B> is a Scots-Irish woman whose father fled with his wife to Ireland after he fought in the 1719 rebellion. It was in Ireland that we met. I spent 2 years courting her while I worked in a distillery. Unfortunately her parents did not approve and we ended up running away to the American colonies.  I was able to get passage for us to the colonies by saving money for her ticket and my working on the ship that granted her passage.  </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-size:15pt;'><B> </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-size:15pt;'><B>Upon arriving in New York we found that we needed to head west in order to get land of our own and to get away from the English troops here in the new world. Fortunately we found some other members of my clan that had come to the colonies long before the last Jacobite rebellion. They being more familiar with the area and the locals helped us to adapt. We made our way to the Great Lakes region between Fort St. Louis on the Illinois River and Fort La Baye on the southern tip of Baye des Puans. We are currently aiding the French in their war against the British in the Ohio Territory. I also am working as a trapper in the Illinois Territory of La Petite Canada for my French allies. </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-size:15pt;'><B> </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-family:"Chancery Cursive";font-size:18pt;'><B></B></FONT><FONT style='font-size:18pt;'><B><A class=s3 HREF="index.html">Back</A> </B></FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=center class=s3 style='text-align: center;'> <FONT style='font-size:18pt;'><B> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="s19spoonandblade";var g_frames=true; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://s19.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s19spoonandblade"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://s19.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s19spoonandblade" target="_top"> <img src="http://s19.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s19spoonandblade" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript>    </FONT></DIV>