[1765]
Boston Massachusetts.
I have done it.
What did I do you might be asking, well let me tell you.
I have become one of the first members of the "sons of liberty".
As to how, well, it was actually pretty simple.
Samuel Adams was a rather vocal apposser to the British Stamp Act.
As in going to the streets in protest, rallying support from the residents of Boston.
And well…let's just say I just so happened to be in the area, and saw a man like that could use some funds to support him.
That's right. All I had to do was give him money to pay for any costs the Sons Of Liberty may incur.
The fact I also owned almost every newspaper in the Colonies helped.
Of course, I didn't actually have any actual animosity towards the British Empire.
But that was because I was mega rich, so the taxes they were enacting didn't affect me.
But it did affect the little people of the 13 Colonies.
Most people were already scraping by.
But now, with extra taxes dumped on their heads, they were drowning.
Of course, I could probably make the British Empire lessen the pressure they were putting on the Colonies.
But if I did that, I wouldn't be able to enact one of my biggest fantasies.
Which was to see, as well as help with, the American revolution.
Maybe it was petty of me to do, but America needed to become independent, and there was really only one way that would happen.
At the moment, me and Samuel were in cahoots with other Liberty members.
My role was to print anti stamp tax flyers, while the other members would go around at night and nail them everywhere.
Normally, I would be heavily taxed on the paper I used to make those exact flyers.
Except I had the paper bought in France then shipped, by my own ships, to me in Massachusetts all in secrecy.
The reason it had to be done in secrecy was because England no longer used my ships to transport goods to the American Colonies. In fact, they directly told my bank head in England that if any of my ships did not sell their goods in England to the Crown, It would put my bank against the crown.
So, in other words, my ships had to sell any goods they might have brought to the Colonies and sold Tax free to England.
Where the crown would then expect us to sell to them at almost no profit for us prices.
All so they can turn around and ship it to America, where it would then be sold with tax.
My guess was since they didn't have India under their thumb, it made them a lot poorer than in the original history.
But that did not mean they were weaker.
England still held a very impressive army that was well trained and hardened to battle in places like Austria, Quebec, and again, the Spanish to the south of the Colonies.
If I didn't want the American Revolution to happen, I would have been more than happy to pull my bank, along with all shipping from England.
But only God knows what would happen if I did that, especially with a mad king at the helm of their kingdom.
It also wasn't that big of an issue for use.
We still had the Indian sea trade that we could take to other kingdoms who would be glad to buy from us.
Like France, who was in the middle of a rather shaky part of their history.
[1770]
Over the past five years, I had become quite the notarized person in the city of Boston, as well as the colony of Massachusetts.
It wasn't hard to see I was a like-minded man to Samuel Adams and the other members of the sons of library to the people who knew of me.
Especially, when my papers continued to slander the crown and the actions they were taking to "push down on the great people of the Colonies".
During this time, I took on my oldest alias of Adam Gottes.
One of, if not the, wealthiest men in all of the colonies.
Of course, I was, without a doubt, the wealthiest man in the entire world.
But the everyday Joe didn't need to know that fact.
Since joining the Sons of Liberty, I have built an entire persona for myself.
To the world, I was a wealthy young man, of above average intellect, who inherited a fortune from my father, along with nearly every printing shop, of any worth, in all the Colonies, as well as 7a significant amount of land with active farms with resident farmers, paying me yearly.
It was also well known that most, if not all, of the money I got from my farms and printing shops went back into the Colonies, as "donations" to the colonies from myself, Adam Gottes.
These donations were put in use for the betterment of the citizens of Boston.
Building new schools and roads, and I even collaborated with Benjamin Franklin to build a large library for the residents of Boston.
And let me say, the man was smart, but at the same time a little snobbish, arrogant, and quite the womanizer.7
I took a larger part in the limelight after I and a few other significant figures managed to halt the Boston massacre from happening.
I intervened by bringing Mister Samuel Adams and his cousin John Adams with me for a late night 'stroll' where we 'mistakenly' came upon the riot.
Doing it like this allowed Samuel, his cousin John, and myself, all notable figures in the community, to defuse the situation.
But that didn't mean we didn't later bash and let everyone in all 13 Colonies know what the redcoats were about to do to the innocent men, wemon, and children who were present during the protest.
This happening this way, didn't get people immediately up in arms.
Instead, it was a slower burn, but in the end, I knew it would still end up with the same result.
[1775]
Well, it has finally begun.
The first battles of concord and Lexington have happened.
Unfortunately, I could not be there, as I had to go to Philadelphia, as I was now a part of the second continental congress.
With notable figures such as Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Hancock.
I was chosen along with Samuel Adams, John Adams, and John Hancock, by the provisional Massachusetts Congress, to represent Massachusetts.
The main reason I was chosen was for my reputation in the Colonies and the substantial donations I had made to the commonwealth of the colony.
Unfortunately, I wasn't a part of the first Continental congress because at the time, I was in New York dealing with the whole England wanting to buy all of our trade for pennies on the quarters.
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