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The fifty-six signers of America's Declaration of Independence risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to found a new country. In this classic work, Benson J. Lossing describes the lives of each of the founding fathers, their greatest achievements, and what impelled them to take such an incredible risk. While some are well known to us – Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock – much of the pleasure in this book comes from reading about the lesser-known signers, and about the many challenges they faced throughout their lives in the young United States. Appendices contain Thomas Jefferson's original version of the Declaration, an analysis of its grievances, the subsequent Articles of Confederation and US Constitution, and the offending Stamp Act. This ebook edition includes an active table of contents, reflowable text, and 50 period engravings of the faces and signatures of the signers.
Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
"In 1776, fifty-six Americans signed a simple document which unalterably changed the course of this country. Most know of the importance of the Declaration of Independence, but few know much about its Signers. This book (originally published in 1848 by eminent 19th-century historian, Benson J. Lossing) provides a brief biography of each signer of the Declaration. Accompanied by fifty engravings, these biographies shed light on what Lossing terms, 'the chief events in the lives of the men who stood sponsors at the baptism in blood of our infant republic.' Through this book - long used in American schools - we, too, can discover the private and public virtues of those venerated Americans who helped create the most stable and enviable nation in the world."--Page 4 of cover.
"A finding aid for persons seeking information on, or descent from, any of the Signers of the Declaration"--Preface
Included: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Adams, Elbridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Harrison, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Thomas Nelson, George Wythe, carter Braxton, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, John Witherspoon, Richard Stockton, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Philip Livingston, Lewis Morris, William Floyd, Francis Lewis, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Charles Carroll, Thomas Stone, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Lyman Hall, Button Guinnett, George Walton.