--part1_21fdd694.24846cc5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/30/99 2:41:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, kcks@goldendale.net writes: << War between the States.... not between the Colonies and England. The perspective is quite different depending on which side of the 'pond' one calls home. Enjoy, Lisa Grimes For more on the American Revolution on the Internet.... americanrevolution.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >The Fate of the Signatories > by Gary Hildreth, courtesy of Paul Harvey > >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, 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. The history >books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary >War. We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that >time and we fought our own government! Perhaps you can now see >why our founding fathers had a hatred for standing armies, and >allowed through the Second Amendment for everyone to be armed.. >> Thought everyone might like to see this. --part1_21fdd694.24846cc5_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <errors-36237-375-cgt714=aol.com@onelist.com> Received: from rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (rly-yg02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.2]) by air-yg03.mail.aol.com (v59.24) with SMTP; Sun, 30 May 1999 02:41:56 -0400 Received: from onelist.com (pop.onelist.com [209.207.164.233]) by rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Sun, 30 May 1999 02:41:51 -0400 Received: (qmail 1784 invoked by alias); 30 May 1999 06:41:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 1775 invoked from network); 30 May 1999 06:41:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailg.skamania.net) (208.131.72.13) by pop.onelist.com with SMTP; 30 May 1999 06:41:49 -0000 Received: from nivek (GD-Dial-49.goldendale.net [208.131.75.113]) by mailg.skamania.net (2.0 Build 2119 (Berkeley 8.8.4)/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA01472 for <GRIMES-List@onelist.com>; Sat, 29 May 1999 23:36:45 +0100 Message-ID: <00b201beaa68$ff5a9600$714b83d0@nivek> From: "Lisa Grimes" <kcks@goldendale.net> To: <GRIMES-List@onelist.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 23:46:16 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Mailing-List: list GRIMES-List@onelist.com; contact GRIMES-List-owner@onelist.com Delivered-To: mailing list GRIMES-List@onelist.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:GRIMES-List-unsubscribe@ONElist.com> Reply-to: GRIMES-List@onelist.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [GRIMES-List] "The rest of the story" From: "Lisa Grimes" <kcks@goldendale.net> Grimes Clan, I'm not one to put politics on the Lists... but in view of the nature of this weekend's Holiday, I thought you'd enjoy finding out just what happened to the signers of "The Declaration of Independence". Since most of my research centers in this time frame, I find this info most thought provoking, and I'm putting this here only as part of our history... nothing more. For those in America, it was the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and for those in England [United Kingdom], it was a Civil War. I've been startled, more than once, to have someone discuss this under the title of 'Civil War'..... and it takes me a moment to orient to the late 1700's and not to the mid-1800's. To me the term means the War between the States.... not between the Colonies and England. The perspective is quite different depending on which side of the 'pond' one calls home. Enjoy, Lisa Grimes For more on the American Revolution on the Internet.... americanrevolution.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >The Fate of the Signatories > by Gary Hildreth, courtesy of Paul Harvey > >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, 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. The history >books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary >War. We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that >time and we fought our own government! Perhaps you can now see >why our founding fathers had a hatred for standing armies, and >allowed through the Second Amendment for everyone to be armed... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What do lizards and rock music have in common? http://www.onelist.com They both have communities at ONElist. Find yours today! --part1_21fdd694.24846cc5_boundary--