Adam Cooper started out as a fifteen-year-old boy, but became a fifteen-year-old man. In the beginning, Adam could not get along with his father, Moses Cooper, and truly believed that his father hated him. Moses was always getting on to Adam for everything he did. In Moses’ eyes his boy could do better than he let on if he would only apply himself a little bit more. “There was nothing that a Cooper man couldn’…showed first 75 words of 1300 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1300 total…take some candles to his coffin. When he left the house Ruth was waiting for him and they hugged and kissed and talked. Everything was good until Adam heard about another muster list for the men to go and fight the redcoats in Boston. Adam had a very tough decision to make about going but it was going to have to wait because for now he needed to stay and take care of his family.