The American Revolution was a war fought by the thirteen colonies to gain their freedom from Great Britain Sam Meeker lived with his mother, Susannah Meeker, father, Eliphalet Meeker, and younger brother, Tim Meeker, in a tavern. A tavern in a colonial town was basically a hotel for lodgers and journeymen. It had a kitchen, small bar, a taproom, and four bedrooms on the second floor for the journeymen and lodgers to spend the night or two, and some of them even had a barn. In the taproom there were barrels full of whisky, beer, and citer. There was a large table in the middle of the room for eating, and bins full of merchandise that they sold to farmers. In the kitchen there was a fireplace larger than the one in the taproom. There were walls covered with cupboards for their food and ham hanging from the...