A brave old Tory, GGGGGG Grandpa Solomon Sparks

I think I have been cruelly punished as a whistle-blower and thinker-from-evidence, but Grandpa Sparks is the model for all his descendants. Why would he want to revolt? He had been given land in the 1750s and was very happy there. Tea? He did not drink tea. They had brandy and whisky. So young philanderer George Parks (who did not support a child he fathered while single) and who later married into my decent Moore family, tricked the kind-hearted old man into walking out of the safety of his house. (In this pension application "celebrated" means "notorious.")

I wish he had kicked George Parks even harder. Imagine being bound hand and foot on your back in a canoe shouting over and over, "hurra for King George." Grandpa!