{"id":25794,"date":"2025-07-05T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25794"},"modified":"2025-07-05T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:10:23","slug":"the-fate-of-the-56-men-who-signed-the-1776-declaration-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25794","title":{"rendered":"

The Fate Of the 56 Men Who Signed The 1776 Declaration Of Independence<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Political Vel Craft<\/p>\n

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Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a United States Holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the\u00a0Rothschild <\/a>Khazarian-Controlled<\/a>\u00a0Great Britain (now more accurately\u00a0known as the \u2018City of London\u2019 aka;\u00a0Mordor lord Of The Rings<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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U.S. Militia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?<\/em><\/h3>\n

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died.<\/p>\n

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.<\/p>\n

Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army,\u00a0another had two sons captured.<\/p>\n

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.<\/p>\n

What kind of men were they?<\/h2>\n
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The last sentence of the Declaration indicates, they anticipated paying a severe price for their freedom \u2014 \u201c\u2026 with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists, eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners,\u00a0Men of means, well educated,\u00a0but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.<\/p>\n

Among the five New Jersey signers was\u00a0Abraham Clark<\/a>, whose two sons were captured during the Revolutionary War. The township of Clark is named in his honor.<\/p>\n

John Witherspoon<\/a>\u00a0lost his son to the war, and the library, which he donated to Princeton University, was burned.<\/p>\n

Francis Hopkinson\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0home in Bordentown was ransacked during the war.<\/p>\n

Carter Braxton<\/a>\u00a0of 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.<\/p>\n

Thomas McKean<\/a>\u00a0was 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.<\/p>\n

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of\u00a0Ellery<\/a>,\u00a0Hall<\/a>,\u00a0Clymer<\/a>,\u00a0Walton<\/a>,\u00a0Gwinnett<\/a>,\u00a0Heyward<\/a>,\u00a0Ruttledge<\/a>, and\u00a0Middleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the battle of Yorktown,\u00a0Thomas Nelson, Jr.<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Francis Lewis<\/a>\u00a0had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.<\/p>\n

John Hart\u00a0<\/a>was driven from his wife\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Charles Carroll<\/a>\u00a0was born into a wealthy Roman Catholic family in Annapolis Maryland. He began his rather remarkable formal education at the age of 8, when he was packed off to France to attend a Jesuit College at St. Omer.\u00a0In 1772 he anonymously engaged the secretary of the colony of Maryland in a series of Newspaper articles protesting the right of the British government to tax the colonies without representation.\u00a0Carroll was an early advocate for armed resistance with the object of separation from Gr. Britain.\u00a0He served in the Continental Congress, on the Board of War, through much of the War of Independence, and simultaneously participated in the framing of a constitution for Maryland.\u00a0He was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1781, and to the first Federal Congress in 1788. He returned again to the State Senate in 1790 and served there for 10 years. He retired from that post in 1800.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout Morals A Republic Cannot Subsist Any Length of Time\u201d \u2013Patriot Charles Carroll Founding Father & U.S. Patriot Charles Carroll The only Catholic Signer of the Declaration of Independence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWithout Morals A Republic Cannot Subsist Any Length of Time\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013Patriot Charles Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Carroll was the last surviving member of those who signed the Declaration. He died, the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration, in 1832 at the age of 95.\u00a0He was thus the only Signer to see a steam locomotive.<\/p>\n

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