13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
the youngest signer was Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
the youngest signer was Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
On TV’s The West Wing, President Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) was supposed to be a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire physician who signed the Declaration.
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
the youngest signer was Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
On TV’s The West Wing, President Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) was supposed to be a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire physician who signed the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson is reported by some to have invented the lazy susan.
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
the youngest signer was Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
On TV’s The West Wing, President Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) was supposed to be a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire physician who signed the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson is reported by some to have invented the lazy susan.
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
the youngest signer was Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
On TV’s The West Wing, President Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) was supposed to be a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire physician who signed the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson is reported by some to have invented the lazy susan.
13 Pieces of Trivia About Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17 children of a candlemaker/soapmaker.
Rev. John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.
The only Catholic signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. His brother John was the first bishop in the United States of America.
I played Witherspoon in a college production of “1776,” and later wrote an essay about him
Button Gwinnett, the English born representative from Georgia, was shot dead in a duel by a political rival, Lachlan McIntosh, less than a year after siging the Declaration.
The above-mentioned Charles Carroll was the last living signer prior to his death in 1832 (he was 95).
George Walton was the founder of the Richmond Academy and Franklin College which later became the University of Georgia.
the youngest signer was Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
On TV’s The West Wing, President Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) was supposed to be a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire physician who signed the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson is reported by some to have invented the lazy susan.
Roger Sherman once worked as a cobbler.
Carter Braxton had eighteen children.
John Hancock, in addition to being president of the Continental Congress, was also its richest member; he would easily have been a member of “the 1%” of Colonial America and his enormous fortune would certainly have been confiscated had the British suppressed the rebellion.
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