"Without morals a republic can not subsist." ~ Charles Carroll, the only Catholic Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
Posted on 08/22/2022 6:07:14 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
John Adams
Also try Mordecai Gist, Baltimore. He threw aside his future prospects (which were spectacular) and whipped up a battalion of prominent men who learned to fight and then appeared at almost all of Washington’s close scrapes. In each case, they were instrumental in Washington’s living to fight another day.
Patrick O’Donnell (great writer) chronicled this group in his 2016 volume, “Washington’s Immortals”. Gist himself took a back seat to the exploits of the group he mustered.
You’ve confused Andrew Jackson with another. Jackson was a young boy who drilled with militia shortly before the war’s end.
Button was the best human being in the world.
HE WAS CUTE AS A BUTTON!
Based upon the beer sales, the most popular Founding Father is Samuel Adams.
Paging Dr Warren.
Bunker Hill robbed us of the most popular founding father.
also, John Dickinson, one of the earliest proponents of non violent resistance (he refused to sign the DOI, but participated in the Revolution).
Finally, most important (and most neglected) would be John Witherspoon, only clergyman to sign DOI and founder of Princeton University. He had been a student of Samuel Rutherford, author of LEX REX, the book which asserted that God’s Law was sovereign over kings, and that kings who refused to rule as God’s appointed rulers (affirming principles of justice and legality) were to be lawfully deposed. Most people have no idea how gaspingly bold that stand was in the day. Rutherford is rightly called the father of the United States, for that reason.
Hang on……gonna check. I hope I got it right. But if I’m wrong, I wanna know.
Thanks.
Some bios from my Henry Livingston website. I’ve got many more, as well as history pages and transcription from Henry’s music manuscript of the period.
Chief Justice John Jay
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/johnjay.htm
Alexander Hamilton
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/alexanderhamilton.htm
Contemporary Newspaper Account of Hamilton’s death in duel
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/alexanderhamiltonbalance.htm
Declaration Signer Philip Livingston
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/signerphiliplivingston.htm
New Jersey Governor William Livingston
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/govwilliamlivingston.htm
Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/lordstirling.htm
Brigadier General Philip Van Cortlandt
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/generalphilipvancortlandt.htm
Major General Richard Montgomery
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/richardmontgomery.htm
https://www.henrylivingston.com/music
History - Henry Livingston’s Rev War Diary - Hudson River Painters
https://youtu.be/tt9VZexn1ic
Henry Livingston - Music Manuscript - Yanky Doodle - Page 17
https://youtu.be/eP-tMGefdwQ
Interesting, looks like mind games with George Washington being listed twice.
I’ll go with John Adams. He, and his son, John Quincy Adams, were “in the background” players and were instrumental in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
I don’t know the details of Hamilton’s service at Trenton but he was on Washington’s staff for a good part of the war and he took a redoubt at Yorktown with his field command.
If you’re interested in NY’s convention on the US Constitution.
https://henrylivingston.com/history/conventions/1788minutes.htm
Nope, I was totally wrong.
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 making him too young to be in the Revolutionary War.
My bad. Sorry everyone.
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. George Washington
3. James Madison
4. Patrick Henry
5. George Mason
6. Ben Franklin
The famous story about Jackson in the Revolutionary War was his facial scar he received for sassing a Brit officer and refusing to polish his boots. The officer smacked him with a sword. Jackson and his brother were mistreated as prisoners. Jackson HATED Brits and got even in 1815.
He sure did get even. Who smacks a child in the face with a sword?
Mason.
He and a couple others knew that the present constitution gave the federal government to much power. And they were right.
Paul Revere, played by William Shatner, gets honorable mention.
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