Fulton de Anjou

"""'It is best that we, as good and proper men, do as we should. A lifetime of lashes is worth paradise in death.'"

History
Forty-four years ago, Edmund and Blythe de Anjou eloped and fled the township of Horstberg, Barton. The couple settled just south of their homes, finding a new beginning in Hepshaw. Soon after, Blythe would give birth to Fulton de Anjou, and two more sons would follow.

Fulton was raised under conflict. Naive and young, his parents would make many mistakes which lead to desperate times and disagreement after disagreement. One harsh winter, his father took a loan from a wealthy plantation owner for which he would become an indentured servant to clear the debts; to support the family further, his mother worked as a washerwoman.

No formal education was available to Fulton, and by the time he was sixteen, he was not seeking to learn a skilled trade. With the beginnings of westward expansion underway so that another town could be built, Hepshaw found itself on the brink of another war. As result, the military seemed lucrative to young Fulton.

Although lucrative, the realities in training and in battle proved to be dirty work. Six notes a month, which seemed a fair wage, remained worth the toil; however, he found that the rates fluctuated. Against his power, it fell to one notes for a couple of odd months--one month, he was not paid but the lack was supplemented with formal promises of land grants so long as the territories were secured.

Only a humble ensign, he would eventually be recognized as a Captain after The Crofter's War of 1658 (also called Samoset's War). This was a war waged over a long stretch of fertile fields sought after by the Calumet Tribe. Hepshaw's advancements worried Sachem Samoset, sparking a skirmish which would flare up into a war of two years. Many of the new ensigns were crofters seeking to secure some of the land for themselves.