Fair enough. People are free to read our respective posts and decide for themselves which better reflects the pre-Revolutionary mindset of the colonists.
My daughter is member of DAR. There are oral traditions that still survive. Not as much for the American Revolution as the later Texas Revolution. But there were some overlaps between the two.
My ancestors were here during the Republic of Texas, my father’s grandfather was born in TX during the Republic. Those oral history events still survive, not hear say.