This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------59588FDE25021CB2D3BDBA5C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is something i got off of the Allegany County MD list... Hope yall like it too! Adrienne. --------------59588FDE25021CB2D3BDBA5C Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail2.bellatlantic.net ([151.196.0.38]) by immta1.bellatlantic.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990701131409.UBDI16903@mail2.bellatlantic.net>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:14:09 -0400 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by mail2.bellatlantic.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA16072; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 08:14:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA20054; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 06:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 06:10:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Susan Tyson" <teetyson@mindspring.com> Old-To: <MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: <01bec3c3$8b5cb3e0$cf0656d1@lgwujvnl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Subject: [MDALLEGA-L] Independence day Resent-Message-ID: <G-i8_C.A.M5E.Ij2e3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/11077 X-Loop: MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MDALLEGA-L-request@rootsweb.com Thought you might enjoy this little tidbit -- (In our haste to celebrate, let's not forget why....) Every year we seem to get the traditional holiday message and standard safety brief. Well, the importance of vehicular and recreational safety can not be over stressed during this time however, pasted below is a different Independence Day holiday message.... Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. 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 and 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, Gwinnett, 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 home 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. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." They gave you and me a free and independent America. Some of us take these liberties so much for granted ... We shouldn't. ==== MDALLEGA Mailing List ==== AC Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/md/allegany/ ListHostess (with the mostest super list members): Carol Askey askeycj@ix.netcom.com --------------59588FDE25021CB2D3BDBA5C--