AMERICA: The United States Networkpublic - created 08/05/05 |
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Some information:
The Federalist Papers: www.foundingfathers.info/feder...ex.htm
The Declaration of Independence: www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdoc...tion.html
The Constitution of the United States: www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html
Some facts about our Founding Fathers:
The Declaration of Independence was signed by fifty-six brave souls.
The most famous were Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and John Adams. But the story is far, far greater.
Of the original 56 signers 11 were Merchants, 9 were Farmers, 24 were Attorneys or Judges.
Nine died from combat in the Revolutionary War while the British captured and tortured five to death. The British sacked and burned of the colonials in doing so they burnt the homes of Eighteen of the Founding Fathers ransacking the properties and raping the women they found.
These were Humans their families were Humans. They all too often paid terribly for their love of this land and the freedoms they created for us today.
NEW YORK:
William Floyd fled the British living with his family as refugees in the wilderness where his wife died.
Lewis Morris’ home was destroyed and plundered by the British they burnt his land and butchered his livestock and caused his family to flee into the wild.
Francis Lewis lost his home and estate in raids and pillaginf by the British. The British imprisoned, tortured and raped his wife. Her treatment was so terrible that she dies almost immediately after release. Lewis died a pauper.
VIRGINIA:
Carter Braxton dies a pauper after he lost his shipping empire when the British seized it.
Thomas Nelson Jr. bankrupted himself to the tune of 2 million dollars, which he personally borrowed to support the revolution. The British general Cornwallis seized and occupied Nelson’s home during the pivotal battle of Yorktown. Nelson’s grave is unmarked to this day.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Edward Rutledge; Thomas Heyward Jr; and Arthur Middleton had their homes destroyed and pillaged before in 1780 they were captured by the British during the battle of Charlestown.
RHODE ISLAND
William Ellery’s home was burnt and pillaged when Newport was taken by the British.
NEW JERSEY
Supreme Court Justice Richard Stockton was imprisoned when tories ( traitors to the revolution) reported him to the British. In the British prison he was tortured and starved.. His entire estate and lands were seized and destroyed. Justice Stockton’s family lived on the public weal and kindness of strangers until they died. . In the British assault on New York, Francis Lewis's home and property were pillaged. His wife was captured and imprisoned; so harshly was she treated that she died soon after her release. Lewis spent the remainder of his days in relative poverty.
John Hart at age 65 was forced to abandon his dying wife. He was forced to flee the British in the winter of 1776 hiding in the wilderness. He had Thirteen children who were also chased into oblivion by the British. No one ever learned what became of them. put to flight. After the war Mrs. Hart was dead, the children were never found he was landless and pennyless dying a broken man.
PENNSYLVANIA
Thomas McKeam an Irish Immigrant was so despised by the british that they caused him to move his domicile with constant frequency. He died a pauper
Lesser known Signers: Dillery (many say it is Ellery), Hall, Clymer, George Walton, Gwinnett, Thomas Heyward Jr., Edward Rutledge, and Arthur Middleton were pauperized by British atrocities.
Others still:
George Wythe; William Whipple; Joseph Bartlett; Thomas Lynch; Benjamin Harrison; Richard Henry Lee; George Clinton; William Paca; Samuel Chase; L. Morris; William Floyd; Charles Carroll of Carrollton; Robert Morris; T. Willing; Benjamin Rush; Elbridge Gerry; Robert Treat Paine; William Hooper; Stephen Hopkins; William Ellery; George Clymer; Joseph Hewes.; Jason Wilson; Abraham Clark; Francis Hopkinson; Roger Sherman; Robert R. Livingston; John Witherspoon; Samuel Huntington; William Williams; Oliver Wolcott; Chas. Thomson; George Read; John Dickinson; Philip Livingston.
These brave souls began the great dream that is called the United States of America.
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