[OneVike]

Far cry from most of today' leaders who pledged to take our fortunes while sacrificing the lives of the citizens in wars they themselves do not have the stomach to fight till victory is achieved while displaying nothing that even resembles honor.

[cripplecreek]

Lyman Hall is my distant tie to the Revolution by way of his brother who fought in the war.

[Tax-chick]

All kinds of stuff. I read T.R. Fehrenbach’s “The Signers” when I was in college.

James Wilson, featured in “1776!” as the deciding vote on the independence resolution, became not only a Supreme Court justice but a highly sought-after divorce lawyer. John Carroll of Carrollton, whose brother was the first Catholic bishop in the United States, was the richest man in the United States in the Confederation and early Federal period.

Several of the Lees went bats before they died ... inbreeding, probably.

[the invisib1e hand]

I know that they’re spinning in their graves.