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> I ran across the below info. researching a signer of the Declaration of 
> Independence and found it quite interesting.
> 
> 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 serving
> 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.  John Hart died in 1779, without 
> ever seeing his family again. 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 about what happened in the Revolutionary War.  We didn't 
> fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought 
> our own government!
> 
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