Summarize what has happened chapter 4

Ben was know 40 years old and stilled lived with him mother in the cabin , Strangers had moved into the Hollow and he wanted to go see what was going on , they knew he was the man who made a wooden clock him and the new neaighbors shacked hands the Ellicott brothers .
Ben decided to help them build a mill so he can get the answers from the questions he wants to ask him and they made a store they trade things they need .
Long after a war had started because some men dumped three shiploads of British tea into Boston Harbor , the Amerasians had decided not to buy any more tea from England until King Gerorge stopped taxing the people and start listening to their complaints . But King George didn't listen to them instead sending more soldiers over there , then Ben grow more wheat then tobacco to send to the army . Ben is know 52 living in the United States alone , his mother had died before the war started , Ben learned how to survey , and astronomy ; the sun moon , stars , planets , comets . After all ben decided to become a astronomer , he farmed all day and read books about astronomy and studied the stars at night . then he decides to make an almanac himself after many nights of figuring with his compass and ruler and drawing the movement of the sun and the moon , he sent them to George Ellicott and after got a letter back from him bu the end he know how to predict eclipses of the sun so he thought he was ready to begin one of his own but before he could start he had an unexpected adventure .