Title: The Beginning
Author: Gilmoregirl7878
A/N: I started reading a book called "Paddy Whacked" By T.J. English, it's a history book of the Irish American Gangsters, and got a wonderful idea, at least I think so.
WARNING!
This book will be based on lots of history facts, including people, but will of course have some modern twists in it, like Rory's feminism.
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The year was 1849 when John 'Old Smoke' Morrissey, just eighteen, arrived in New York City, hoping to make it as a big time Gangster in the big city.
On his first day in New York City, he walked into the Empire Club, home base of Captain Isaiah Rynders, legendary sporting man, gambling impresario, and political fixer for the Democratic party. He challenged any man in there to a fight, telling that he would beat them all.
When John Morrissey woke up from being knocked unconscious, he was on a cot in the back room of the Empire Club with Captain Rynders himself offering him a job, telling him that he had potential.
Thus started John Morrissey's career.
He lived in the neighborhood of Five Points, on Cherry Street. The physical environment was but a garland compared to its reputation as the world's preeminent stomping ground for gangs and gangsters.
The primary gathering place was Paradise Square, where Canal Street, the Bowery, Chatham, Pearl, and Center Streets converged to form a truncated triangle, giving the neighborhood it's name, Five Points.
Paradise Square was claimed by the earliest of gangs, including the Forty Thieves, Kerryonions, Shirt Tails, Chichesters, Patsy Conroys, Plug Uglies, Roach Guard, and Dead Rabbits.
John Morrissey was a pretty good fighter, and took to boxing, which was illegal at the time, but that didn't stop them.
When he didn't lose a fight he went to California and back to New York City, boxing, beating the Californian state Champion. When he came back to Five Points, he was more popular than ever.
Yankee Sullivan challenged him to a fight, around five thousand people rushed to New York to watch the fight. Yankee Sullivan was said to be the best of the best.
After beating Yankee Sullivan, John' Old Smoke' Morrissey was the Champion of America, but retired afterward when his wife, Sarah Smith, asked him to so they could start a family.
'Old Smoke' Morrissey might have retired from the ring, but he still had the reputation of being the toughest of the tough.
After, he set up the Saratoga Club House, a first class gambling parlor, and made his greatest success. Many wealthy investors invested on it and 'Old Smoke' was a very wealthy man.
Also being the Five Points Mob Boss, he was called the 'New York State Gambling Czar'.
He had business with the most influential and powerful men in the world, and had 'bought' his way into High Society.
However powerful and wealthy, the men of High Society looked down on him for being Irish American or a 'Paddy', but feared him for what he was, the Mob Boss of Five Points.
'Old Smoke' didn't like to be looked down upon, and turned to Politics for another way of Power, he joined Boss Tweed's inner circle in around 1865. Boss Tweed's Inner circle supervised all city and country expenditures.
He gained even more power through Politics.
When John 'Old Smoke' Morrissey was thirty five, he walking through 'his' neighborhood when he saw a five year old fighting a group of boys that were older him, and was holding his own pretty well.
He immediately liked this young boy, and took him under his wing, seeing that the boy had no parents, they had died of cholera while living in the tenant houses.
This young boy reminded 'Old Smoke' of himself when he was younger. He showed him the trick of the trade, to fight, and grow up and support himself on the streets.
They were as close as Father and Son.
When John 'Old Smoke' Morrissey died on May 1, 1877, he was only forty-seven. His boxing injuries had finally caught up with him and he got sick because of them.
After he died, the young boy was known to be the 'Future Mob Boss of Five Points', him being the prodigy son of John 'Old Smoke' Morrissey.
Although the boy was only twelve, it didn't faze him. He only grew in power and exceeded all the expectations of him while he grew older.
The year was now 1889, he was twenty-four.
He was the leader of the Whyo. The Whyo were by far the most notorious and powerful gang in New York City, and a political figure.
He was probably the most dangerous man in New York, maybe the country. He had more power than most and the advantage that he was only twenty-four and being the Mob Boss of Five Points, just like John Morrissey.
His name was Tristan Dugrey.
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A/N: I had to do the Historical background of the story or this would make absolutely no sense.
I will be bringing in Rory and other characters into the story. Most everything was Historical facts, except obviously the parts with Tristan in them.
John 'Old Smoke' Morrissey was a real person and Five Points is a real place, the Whyo was a real gang.
I hope you enjoyed the chapter...or at least it intrigued you to review and want to read more!
This will be a Trory, and as all of my previous readers know, I love to be original with my stories, and I'm going to be trying a new angle with my writing. Plus, you have no idea how much research I did for this chapter! Haha. I hope to be Historically correct in some ways, but please do not flame me for not being. I'm only fourteen. There is only a certain extent on how accurate I can be!
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As always,
Ash!