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Home » Just War Theories » Whatever Happened To? …

Whatever Happened To? …

DeclarationofIndependence.jpg
(These fac­toids were for­warded to us by an asso­ciate. The orig­i­nal author is unknown.)

Have you ever won­dered what hap­pened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five were cap­tured by the British as trai­tors, and tor­tured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ran­sacked and burned.

Two lost their sons serv­ing in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hard­ships of the Revolutionary War.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-​​four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were mer­chants, nine were farm­ers and large plan­ta­tion own­ers: men of means, well edu­cated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence know­ing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and prop­er­ties to pay his debts and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his fam­ily almost con­stantly. He served in the Congress with­out pay, and his fam­ily was kept in hid­ing. His pos­ses­sions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or sol­diers looted the prop­er­ties of Dillery Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the bat­tle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his head­quar­ters. He qui­etly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and prop­er­ties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was dri­ven from his wife’s bed­side as she was dying. Their 13 chil­dren fled for their lives. His fields and his grist­mill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, return­ing to find his wife dead and his chil­dren van­ished. A few weeks later he died from exhaus­tion and a bro­ken heart. Norris and Livingston suf­fered sim­i­lar fates.

Re-​​read the Declaration of Independence here.

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  1. radial says:
    July 4, 2007 at 7:14 am

    This is an old email that gets recir­cu­lated every year around this time. See http://​www​.snopes​.com/​h​i​s​t​o​r​y​/​a​m​e​r​i​c​a​n​/​p​r​i​c​e​p​a​i​d​.​asp

    Reply
  2. Wembley says:
    July 4, 2007 at 7:47 am

    Reading the Snopes link, it’s inter­est­ing that none died in cus­tody, and the rea­son for four of them being arrested was not because they signed, but because they were tak­ing part in mil­i­tary action against the British.
    Illegal combatants??

    Reply
  3. IROC says:
    July 4, 2007 at 9:08 am

    Is it too strange that EVERY facet is false??? I think James Bond 007 may have wrote this author unknown piece for the Her Majesty, the Queen’s pleasure.

    Reply
  4. MrSparkle says:
    July 4, 2007 at 11:39 am

    There is the rosy view of his­tory that is as easy to believe as it feels good.
    Too bad it’s not.
    To King George!

    Reply
  5. Mike says:
    July 4, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    LOL, it’s truthi­ness in action!
    Would that those who start wars, be their motives base or noble, suf­fer as much as those who fight them…

    Reply
  6. Demophilus says:
    July 5, 2007 at 12:32 am

    E pluribus unum.
    Hopefully, includ­ing dead heros and fact check­ers, alike.
    Have a happy Fourth.

    Reply
  7. Nathan says:
    July 5, 2007 at 9:00 am

    this is a fake and I’ve seen it many times before.
    none of it is fac­tual.
    please delete.

    Reply
  8. C says:
    July 5, 2007 at 9:41 am

    This is almost all made up. It doesn’t even get the spelling right of some of the men it pur­ports to honor (it’s Thomas Mckean not Mckeam, for exam­ple).
    You only hurt your cred­i­bil­ity when you post this sort of trash. How are we sup­posed to trust you on the hard stuff when you botch the easy stuff?

    Reply
  9. Max says:
    July 5, 2007 at 10:12 am

    Check snopes: http://​www​.snopes​.com/​h​i​s​t​o​r​y​/​a​m​e​r​i​c​a​n​/​p​r​i​c​e​p​a​i​d​.​asp
    Could you please explain how you con­sider your­self a jour­nal­ist if you post trash like this with­out even googling it?

    Reply
  10. Traveller says:
    July 6, 2007 at 3:43 am

    They cer­tainly sound like insur­gents try­ing rid their coun­try of an unwanted occu­pa­tional force to me.Ooops sorry they are the found­ing farthers.…Strange how per­spec­tive changes.

    Reply

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