Andrew was a young man who lived in the Speyside region of Scotland. His family, like others, lived ordinarily by farming and brewing alcohol with their surplus grain.
Until the day they had to hide equipment passed down from ancestors due to taxes imposed by royal decree.
Eventually, they were scraping by selling already brewed alcohol or moonshine bit by bit, living quietly with their heads down when it happened.
'Announcement: To the land of true faith, freedom, and wealth. -Virginia Trading Company-'
"Did you see it too? How much land they're giving away... Good heavens! They say they're distributing over 100 acres per household!"
They sowed dreams of becoming landowners in the New World.
It was a time when stories of people making fortunes from aluminum or fur trading seemed to come from far away like dreams.
He too thought he could become like that if he just crossed the Atlantic.
