[MeanWestTexan]

"Your claims that "basically all the founders of the United States" were Masons is about as loopy as claiming to have constructed the Great Pyramids."

You are either an liar or an idiot (or maybe an idiotic liar).

Just starting from 1776 and working forward without any serious research:

George Washington
Ben Franklin
Paul Revere
Ethan Allen
John Hancock
Capt. Henry Williams (battle of Lexington)
John Paul Jones (father of US Navy)
James Otis (no taxation without represenation)
Bennington Wentworth (led Vermont into the Revolution)
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Major General Henry Knox (Washington's Secretary of War, Ft. Knox)
John Adams
Benjamin Rush
Robert Morris
John Witherspoon
George Wythe
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Richard Henry Lee

Masonic signers of Constitution whose names you probably don't know (not repeating those who happend to be listed above):

Elbridge Gerry,
William Hooper,
Richard Stockton,
Matthew Thornton,
Baron Von Steuben
George Walton
William Whipple
Roger Sherman
Josiah Bartlett
Philip Livingston
Joseph Hewes
Robert Treat Paine affiliation
Thomas McKean Samuel McKean
John Penn
Lyman Hall
William Ellery
Thomas Nelson, Jr
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Samuel Huntington

From the 1800's to the Civil War we have guys like:

Lewis& Clark,
Daniel Boone,
Davey Crocket,
William B. Travis, Sam Houston (almost half of the men who died in the Alamo were masons --- the Gonzales Mounted Voluneers consisting of the Gonzales Lodge)

Then from Civil War on:

Daniel Butterfield (Union General --- wrote "taps"),
Mark Twain,
Sam Colt

and hundreds of others.

And that's just what I felt like typing today.

[justshutupandtakeit]

You must have gotten your lists confused most of those listed as signers of the Constitution were not.

[dangus]

Many, yes. I've acknowledged many were since the start of the thread. Over and over again. But you keep making the idiotic assertion that essentially all were. And that's where y'all look like fools

[nopardons]

See my post directly below yours...between us, we are proving what and idiotic liar dangus really is.

[Redleg Duke]

As an interesting sidelight, I had the honor to be a member of Benevolent Lodge #7, Milford, NH. Within the Lodge is an object they call "The Ancient Relic". It is a 24-lb solid shot. The story is that when Ethen Allen captured Fort Ticonderoga, and helped Brother Knox bring the captured guns down to Boston, he saved one shot and gave it to the Brethren of Benevolent Lodge. It was used when Benevolent met in a small room over the taproom of a post house in Amherst, NH, where the lodge was originally founded. It was the duty of the two most junior Brothers to roll the shot back and forth along the floor to prevent the patrons below from hearing any of the ritual.

Every year, the ancient relic is rolled by the Senior Warden from the East to the Junior Warden in the West, and back again in commemoration of the Lodge's early years.