Personal Narrative: Life After The American Revolution

I am the soldier Jacob Raymond, who fought in the French and Indian War along with the American Revolution. Life in the colonies after the French and Indian War was wonderful until Britain passed the Proclamation of 1776. Parliament passed this law in order to stop us from moving west towards Quebec. This made it more difficult to farm and was starting to upset many of the colonists including myself. Next, the Sugar Act was passed in 1764. This act put a tax on sugar and molasses, which would made it very difficult to make rum. They later passed Stamp Act, which put a tax on paper goods such as the newspaper and playing cards. The worst tax to come was the Tea Act in 1773. This act put a tax on tea, and only allowed us to buy it from the

The colonies were now a melting pot of beliefs, as written in Samuel Adams letter. What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman. .

Our general, George Washington, had a plan to have our army block Cornwallis, the British general, from escaping from Yorktown by land while the French naval fleet blocked the British escape by sea. This meant that Washington had the British encircled. After three weeks of non-stop bombardment, both day and night, from cannon and artillery Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17, 1781. We had won the war for independance after 8 long years of fighting. My friends and I were ecstatic for the win, but we were also now able to go back to our families. Peace negotiations began in 1782, and on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally recognizing the United States as a free and independent nation after eight years of