Robert Flint is an immigrant from Flintshire, in Wales living in the eighteenth century America in wilderness of near the Mohawk River. During his delivery business in Albany, New York, he marries at a farily young age to Joanna Bowman, and they lived on Gallow Hills, and began a family. Robert soon becomes a pioneer, and a businessman known for his honesty, wisdom, and courage. In a few years, Robert, Joanna, and their two sons move up the Mohawk River to a place called Sprout Brook, which is four miles from Cherry Valley. Here he builds his home, and buys nearly one thousand acres. Here is where they had three more sons, and soon the French and Indian War would begin. Robert soon becomes an involved patriot, along with very close friends Ben Wells,and a Mohawk Indian, named Coopernol, where they both participate with the British during the French and Indian War. When the American Revolution began, Robert, Ben, and Coppernol were scouts, and fought in many battles throughout New York, as well as Canada. As Roberts five sons were of age they would were well known, and called 'The Five Fighting Flints, ' among the Mohawk Valley militia. Roberts five sons all fought, and survived the terrible battle at Oriskany. Their names are edged upon the monument that is there today. This book is 90% fact, as I did five years of research on Robert Flint, and his family. The times, and battles are as accurate as I could find.
Trail of Broken Chains
Trail of Broken Chains is an exciting story that follows the journey of Robert Flint{this is the grandson of Robert Flint the Pioneer}, and Joshua Wells {the grandson of Ben Wells,} two adventurous young men, through the ever changing American landscape in the years immediately following the American Revolution. After meeting Lily, the daughter of a wealthy Southern gentleman, and Adam, a former slave whom Lily and her father had saved from a vicious plantation owner, Robert and Joshua's eyes are opened to the struggles of their fellow human beings enslaved on the Southern plantations. With a steadfast sense of justice, Robert, Joshua, Lily, and Adam devise plans to liberate the slaves in the South, and transport them to freedom in the North. They soon learn that the slave trade is a big business down South, and the danger lies at every turn in the road. How much are these determined youn people willing to risk in order to change the course of America's history?
Two Brothers, Two Wars, One Valley
Two Brothers, Two Wars, One Valley, is the third novel by David Burton Flint. It tells the story of two courageous brothers, Thomas, and John Morrison, who bound by loyalty to their neighbors, and a sense of justice, lead an inexperienced yet determined militia through two historical conflicts to bring freedom to their beloved village of Stone Arabia, in the Mohawk Valley. With rich description, extraordinary passion, and intimate portrait of colonial life at the threshold of the American Revolution, and gives readers insight into the hearts, minds, and souls of the brave men who were willing to sacrifice everything in the fight for independence.
Keeper of the Waters
On his first voyage from England to the New World, Allan Jacop Fox had no desire to settle in this faraway land, but only to work as ship's deck hand, and he intended to safely sail back home from the St. Lawrence River to England. A quiet young man who wasn't one to stand out. Allan thought he would, in time, marry, and settle in one of the ports in England. He did not know that his future would be one of adventure, eventually becoming a highly sought after counselor, and a wise man by many natives from New York's Indian tribes, and tribes in the Ohio frontier. He would become a high ranking man in the Mohawk Valley, and by hundreds of new settlers who had gradually settled across this wilderness known as the Mohawk Valley. Although fraught with self-doubt, Allan would soon find himself speaking from his soul to all the people from the St. Lawrence River, to the Ohio, and Pennsylvania frontiers. He would make enemies, but brotherly friendship with the Mohawk Indians before, and after the French and Indian War drew him into conflict that would devide two great nations into a bitter, bloody war. His experience created, and transcended all he had known before, he became a new man, and a new leader. In time he would speak of the future, and knew this would be a war that could only be the beginning of another greater war, and more bloodshed upon his fertile valley known as the Mohawk Valley. This inspiring story will transport you back to the colonial days of frontier conflict, an international scramble for the possession of a new, and valuable lands, and the history of the people caught in the middle, knowing they must turn to the Keeper of the Waters to survive.
Halfmoon on the Mississippi
Rejoin Joshua, Robert, and his friends, Adam, a now free former slave, and his Indian wife Two Moons as they head west to the Mississippi River, their life long dream. They soon will encounter new friends, and start their keelboat, and trading business on the high bluffs over looking the Mississippi River, and where the un-charterd muddy Missouri River flows into the Mississippi, just across from St. Louis. In time thier old friends Lily. and her not so trused husband will join them again. Together they will have their many problems with these two great rivers, as well as pirates, and once again finding themselves down the Mississippi River trading, and finding they are racing Lewis & Clark up the un-tamed Missouri River banks. Each bend in these two rivers will unite them closer as a large family, and the men they will meet who will become their friends, or their enemies. A new time is about to expolde from St. Louis, and west. These characters are living in a changing America, and in time they will laugh, and cry as thier lives soon become involved in every aspect that is soon to be at their small village they all call home. David Burton Flint
Halfmoon on the Mississippi Book Two The Adventure Begins
Murder, pirates, slavery, and more! Robert Flint and his life long friend Joshua Wells, along with their wolf Halfmoon travel with Adam a free slave and his wife Two Moons travel to the Mississippi River where they meet two crusty men who live on the high bluffs over looking the Missouri River where it flows into the Mississippi River. Here they become close friends, and begin to build, and plan for the trade that is now coming to the early days of St. Louis, from New Orleans, and to lay out plans to open the first trading post up the un-chartered Missouri River. In time they are re-united with old friends, and soon they will meet Lewis and Clark before they began their historical westward exploration.
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