The shot, which was fired at Lexington on April 19, 1775, began the revolutionary war and it ended eight and a half years later on September 3, 1783 with the Treaty of Paris.
The War was started only 3 months before Laura was born and had already affected her family, as her father was a loyalist. Laura's father married 3 times and had many children so could not handle the stress of the American Revolution and decided to move to Canada.
In addition, to add to some of the problems they faced were economic problems and financial problems. One of the reasons Laura's father decided to move their family to Canada was that there was a lot of cheap land available in Canada and so he decided to sell his land pay off any debts and buy land in Canada with the leftover of the money he got from the land he sold.
Laura was not in the best of circumstances with her first mother and second mother dead, and his father marrying a third wife. Now Laura had to deal with moving to Canada and leaving everything behind in the U.S. There were not any planes or sport cars back then so Laura had a long journey ahead of her and she might even have been worried looking at her family's financial state.
