[avacado]

"I have just never seen any evidence that such a price was placed for the specific act of signing the Declaration. It could have been. As I said earlier, if there was a price, it was never collected. None of the Signers was executed by the British."

Then you cannot call that particular matter in the article an embellishment if you yourself don't know.

[angkor]

Sherman -- You've done a good - or should I say "determined" - job at debunking the article, but not much at all to answer core questions: was any signer targeted; were any imprisoned; did any suffer huge personal or financial losses; etc etc. There are many questions about their fate.

Fortunately the road has been walked before, and perhaps there will be some answers there. Neither you nor Swopes have been very helpful.

Quick and dirty list from Amazon:

The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence (Hardcover) by Dennis Brindell Fradin (Author), Michael McCurdy (Author)

Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (Paperback) by Benson J. Lossing (Author)

Greatness to Spare: The Heroic Sacrifices of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence (Paperback) by T. R. Fehrenbach (Author) \

Wives of the Signers (Paperback) by Harry Clinton Green (Author), Mary Wolcott Green (Author), David Barton (Author)

That's a 2-minute search on Amazon, I'm sure there are other books that cover the topic.