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Another OC based on one of my irl ancestors

Name: John “Jack” Abbott
Born: February 16, 1755; Dorchester County, Maryland
Died: 1836; Bloomfield, Indiana (age 81)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Jack was born to a simple Maryland family near Chesapeake Bay, where he grew up watching political unrest threaten to consume the British colonies. After the British victory in the French and Indian War, the government began to levy taxes on its colonial citizens without their consent. Despite some of the taxes being harmless or even beneficial, the fact that the colonists had no representation in Parliament in voting on these taxes was enough to cause an outrage. That outrage culminated in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers fired upon and killed a handful of protesters. Within a few years, groups of rebels began to spring up across the colonies. One of them, the Sons of Liberty, organized the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in order to oppose British taxes on tea. Open rebellion was breaking loose, and Jack feared what would happen if he got caught up in it all. He had his business to take care of, as well as his darling girlfriend Margaret Williams. While he wanted to support the cause of his people, he wanted to protect his family more.

However, an event transpired in 1774 that would be his call to arms, not just to aid the American colonists but the entirety of humanity as well. On October 19, while on a trading trip in Annapolis, Jack witnessed the cargo vessel Peggy Stewart, get burned by embittered colonists as a punishment for contravening the boycott on tea imports which had been imposed in retaliation for the British treatment of the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party. He noticed that a few men in hoods and white robes were assisting in the protest, and when they mysteriously vanished from the scene before the officials arrived to clean up the mess, Jack's curiosity got the better of him. He travelled around Maryland trying to find one of these men, which he eventually did in a little Annapolis tavern. The man introduced himself as Connor, and he sat down with Jack as the latter explained his plight. Connor told him that he had a way of giving Jack both a chance to fight for liberty and to protect his family back home. He explained that he was a member of an ancient Brotherhood called the Assassins, and that they were fighting a group who wanted to control the nation called the Templars. He told Jack the Assassins would give him training and a cause and plenty of resources to protect his family. Jack went home to discuss Connor's offer to join with Margaret, and after a night of thinking, he returned to Connor and accepted.

Jack remained in Maryland for the first chunk of his Assassin career. He sought out Templar influence in the colony and eliminated it where he could. Eventually, not long after he and Margaret married and had their son James in 1780, the family moved down to Guilford County, North Carolina. The Templars had much more of a presence down in this colony. Connor sent dozens of recruits down to deal with threats to freedom. The Assassins were sent to the Battle of Ramsour's Mill in order to broker a truce between the British and the Patriots in order to prevent innocent casualties. The killed the Templar Johanne de Kalb at the Battle of Camden, triggered Pyle’s Massacre, and protected Otho Williams at the Battle of Wetzell’s Mill. With all the military conflict going on, Jack decided it was high time he took up the big guns. He enlisted in the North Carolina Continental Line at Guilford County Courthouse on June 1, 1781, and was stationed at the High Hills of Santee, South Carolina. He was sent to join Colonel “Light Hourse Harry” Lee's Legion in August, and he helped Lee along with Colonels William Washington and Francis Marion attack the British fort in Dorchester, South Carolina. He followed General Nathanael Greene to the Battle of Eutaw Springs, where he served as a footman, on September 8, 1781. Afterwards, the Continental Army held off the weakened British in the Carolinas until Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans at the Siege of Yorktown a few weeks later.

The war now over and independence won for the nation, Jack returned was discharged on June 1, 1782. On September 15, 1787, he was granted land for his service as a Revolutionary War soldier on Roach Creek, a tributary of the Dan River. Jack returned to the family life with Margaret, whom he had eight more children with, two of whom—George and Alumbee—went on to fight in the War of 1812. In 1803, Jack and his family moved to Sumner County, Tennessee, where his granddaughter Priscilla would be born on November 22, 1823. The family moved to Greene County, Indiana, in 1828. Jack himself retired from the Assassins in his old age, and focused on more homely matter like when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension in 1833, and when he donated 80 acres of land to a local cemetery. Priscilla however took up his role in 1833, when she was introduced to her future Mentor, Aveza Bellamy, and she joined the Assassins to help fight the injustice that the government was generating across the US. Jack passed away in his home in 1836, leaving the Assassin title to future generations.

He is an ancestor of Carter Spainhower and Chelsea Patterson.

Description
Another OC based on one of my irl ancestors

Name: John “Jack” Abbott
Born: February 16, 1755; Dorchester County, Maryland
Died: 1836; Bloomfield, Indiana (age 81)
Allegiance: Assassins

Bio: Jack was born to a simple Maryland family near Chesapeake Bay, where he grew up watching political unrest threaten to consume the British colonies. After the British victory in the French and Indian War, the government began to levy taxes on its colonial citizens without their consent. Despite some of the taxes being harmless or even beneficial, the fact that the colonists had no representation in Parliament in voting on these taxes was enough to cause an outrage. That outrage culminated in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers fired upon and killed a handful of protesters. Within a few years, groups of rebels began to spring up across the colonies. One of them, the Sons of Liberty, organized the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in order to oppose British taxes on tea. Open rebellion was breaking loose, and Jack feared what would happen if he got caught up in it all. He had his business to take care of, as well as his darling girlfriend Margaret Williams. While he wanted to support the cause of his people, he wanted to protect his family more.

However, an event transpired in 1774 that would be his call to arms, not just to aid the American colonists but the entirety of humanity as well. On October 19, while on a trading trip in Annapolis, Jack witnessed the cargo vessel Peggy Stewart, get burned by embittered colonists as a punishment for contravening the boycott on tea imports which had been imposed in retaliation for the British treatment of the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party. He noticed that a few men in hoods and white robes were assisting in the protest, and when they mysteriously vanished from the scene before the officials arrived to clean up the mess, Jack's curiosity got the better of him. He travelled around Maryland trying to find one of these men, which he eventually did in a little Annapolis tavern. The man introduced himself as Connor, and he sat down with Jack as the latter explained his plight. Connor told him that he had a way of giving Jack both a chance to fight for liberty and to protect his family back home. He explained that he was a member of an ancient Brotherhood called the Assassins, and that they were fighting a group who wanted to control the nation called the Templars. He told Jack the Assassins would give him training and a cause and plenty of resources to protect his family. Jack went home to discuss Connor's offer to join with Margaret, and after a night of thinking, he returned to Connor and accepted.

Jack remained in Maryland for the first chunk of his Assassin career. He sought out Templar influence in the colony and eliminated it where he could. Eventually, not long after he and Margaret married and had their son James in 1780, the family moved down to Guilford County, North Carolina. The Templars had much more of a presence down in this colony. Connor sent dozens of recruits down to deal with threats to freedom. The Assassins were sent to the Battle of Ramsour's Mill in order to broker a truce between the British and the Patriots in order to prevent innocent casualties. The killed the Templar Johanne de Kalb at the Battle of Camden, triggered Pyle’s Massacre, and protected Otho Williams at the Battle of Wetzell’s Mill. With all the military conflict going on, Jack decided it was high time he took up the big guns. He enlisted in the North Carolina Continental Line at Guilford County Courthouse on June 1, 1781, and was stationed at the High Hills of Santee, South Carolina. He was sent to join Colonel “Light Hourse Harry” Lee's Legion in August, and he helped Lee along with Colonels William Washington and Francis Marion attack the British fort in Dorchester, South Carolina. He followed General Nathanael Greene to the Battle of Eutaw Springs, where he served as a footman, on September 8, 1781. Afterwards, the Continental Army held off the weakened British in the Carolinas until Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans at the Siege of Yorktown a few weeks later.

The war now over and independence won for the nation, Jack returned was discharged on June 1, 1782. On September 15, 1787, he was granted land for his service as a Revolutionary War soldier on Roach Creek, a tributary of the Dan River. Jack returned to the family life with Margaret, whom he had eight more children with, two of whom—George and Alumbee—went on to fight in the War of 1812. In 1803, Jack and his family moved to Sumner County, Tennessee, where his granddaughter Priscilla would be born on November 22, 1823. The family moved to Greene County, Indiana, in 1828. Jack himself retired from the Assassins in his old age, and focused on more homely matter like when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension in 1833, and when he donated 80 acres of land to a local cemetery. Priscilla however took up his role in 1833, when she was introduced to her future Mentor, Aveza Bellamy, and she joined the Assassins to help fight the injustice that the government was generating across the US. Jack passed away in his home in 1836, leaving the Assassin title to future generations.

He is an ancestor of Carter Spainhower and Chelsea Patterson.