Davy Crockett was born on August seventeenth, 1786 in a cabin in Greene County, the backwoods of Tennessee. He was the fifth out of nine children born to Rebecca and John Crockett. Rebecca’s maiden name was Hawkins, and her and her family moved to the United

ool house after the fight with his older siblings, he made them promise not to tell their father about what happened, and they agreed. That night Davy thought about what had happened, and came to the conclusion that if he went back to school the next day, Mr. Kitchen would whip Davy even worse than he had beaten Angus up. So he decided not to go to school the next day. So the next day he started out for the school house along with his brothers and sisters, but halfway there, he ran into the woods to spend the day. There in the woods he thought about the incident some more, and he decided to skip the next few days until Angus and Mr. Kitchen forgot about it. When it was time for the school children to come home, he would join his siblings for the walk home, so his parents wouldn’t suspect anything. But after about a week had gone by, Mr. Kitchen got in touch with Davy’s father to ask why Davy hadn’t been in school for so long. Together the teacher and Davy’s father gathered Davy had been skipping school. The next day John Crockett asked Davy why he hadn’t been going to school. Davy tried to explain that if he went back, the teacher would beat him, but John Crockett had no sympathy and told Davy that if he didn’t go to school, he would beat Davy twice as hard as the teacher would have. But Davy still refused to go to school, so John Crockett chased him to school with a stick, but Davy ran into the woods before he got to the schoolhouse and hid in a tree.

States from Ireland many years before she met John Crockett. John Crockett had fought in the Revolutionary War. When Davy was a baby, John was just a poor farmer, and Rebecca worked around the house and sewed cloths and such things. Right after Davy was born the family moved to the Nolachucky River Valley. When growing up, the Crocketts’ never stayed in one place for a long period of time. It seemed that the family couldn’t prosper well in the same place for to long. Before long, the family moved to Greenville, Tennessee, about ten miles away from the Nolachucky River Valley in 1790. Without staying there for to long, they all moved to the mouth of Cove Creek when Davy was seven years old. John Crockett and a partner b!

In September 1813, Davy Began his military career. He enlisted in the militia as a scout under Major Gibson in Winchester, Tennessee, to avenge an Indian attack on Fort Mims, Alabama. The Creeks’ were upset about loosing their land to the white settlers. On November third, under the command of General Andrew Jackson, he participated in the retributive massacre of the Indian town of Tallussahatchee. Hundreds of Creek Indians and settlers were brutally killed, and the Creek Indian war is more often referred to as the “Big Bloody.” General Andrew Jackson made Davy chief scout. Davy provided most of the meat for the soldiers, and entertained them with stories at night. In 1814 the war ended. During the course of the war, Davy developed a strong dislike for Andrew Jackson, and a great respect for the Indians. Davy returned home right after the war. When Davy first got home, Polly was well for a while, but later on she grew sick and died in spring of 1815, shortly after Margaret was born.

One night in 1798, when Davy was twelve, a Dutchman named Jacob Silers came to spend a few nights at the tavern. John Crockett was pressed for money, so he decided to hire out Davy to Silers. Davy was to help Silers drive a heard of cattle to Rockbridge County, Virginia. Davy had never been away from home before in his life, so he left with a heavy heart. Jacob Silers was good to Davy, though he was a man of few words. Silers carried his gun with him at all times. Silers taught Davy how to hunt, shoot, and care for a rifle. Davy was taught by a good teacher, and for the rest of his life those skills would come in handy. After Davy and Jacob were to get to their destination, Silers was to give Davy Five dollars, and Davy was to head home. After they did

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