Question? Were they lawyers or just trained in law?
Take Jefferson ... wide ranging education/interests including law....but a lawyer?
If I remember most colleges of the colonial period had limited areas of study...Theology, law, Engineering? That was about it! I think Harvard was began as a Theology College....
Liberals all over are keeling over at that factoid.....LOLOLOL
President Abraham Lincoln, several generations after the revolution was a lawyer without ever stepping foot in a law school classroom. Back then, and up to not that long ago, one could “read” for the law, sort of an apprenticeship or self-directed study course. IIRC, Lincoln found or bought a barrel of law books somehow and used those.