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To: bert
FReepers are lazy and no longer capable of action.

Not lazy, too old.

54 posted on 06/27/2015 5:48:55 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot

“Samuel Whittemore (July 27, 1696 - February 2, 1793[1][2]) was an American farmer and soldier. He was 78 years of age when he became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).[3]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whittemore

” How old were the key participants of the American Revolution?”

Only listing those above 50:

“Abraham Clark, 50^
Benjamin Harrison, 50^
George Mason, 50
Lewis Morris, 50^
Lord Stirling, 50
George Wythe, 50*^
Guy Carleton, 51
John Morton, 51*^
Comte de Rochambeau, 51
Lyman Hall, 52^
James Rivington, 52*
Samuel Adams, 53^
Comte de Grasse, 53
John Witherspoon, 53^
John Burgoyne, 54
Johann de Kalb, 55
Roger Sherman, 55^
Thomas Gage, 56
James Smith, 56^
Israel Putnam, 58
Comte de Vergennes, 58
Lewis Nicola, 59*
George Germain, 60
Philip Livingston, 60^
George Taylor, 60*^
Matthew Thornton, 62^
Francis Lewis, 63^
John Hart, 65*^
Stephen Hopkins, 69^
Benjamin Franklin, 70^
Samuel Whittemore, 81”

http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/08/ages-of-revolution-how-old-1776/


62 posted on 06/27/2015 8:47:21 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: itsahoot

ok..... i’ll agree to that

it certainly applies to me


68 posted on 06/28/2015 4:45:09 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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