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To: Edit35
My grandmother had documentation by old deeds and birth certificates that she was great great granddaghter of John Morton who signed the declaration of independence, said he started out wealthy and lost the plantation and everything he had in the revolutionary war to debtors buying weapons for the militia, died a poor man living off the land in Ohio, his sons went on to be riverboat pilots

that and $3.95 will get me a cup of coffee, and the priveledge to pay my taxes, some jackass born in Kenya becomes telepromter in chief, a mexican illegal alien gets a discount on his electric bill

5 posted on 03/12/2009 8:54:50 AM PDT by KTM rider (keep thy powder dry, gird thy loins, and brace for the winds of change)
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To: KTM rider

Not to argue with your grandmother’s story, but John Morton died on his farm in Chester, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia today) in April 1777 of tuberculosis. He was the first signer to die. He left the farm and a few slaves to his wife and children, who were forced to flee to New Jersey when the British captured Philadelphia that fall.


29 posted on 03/12/2009 9:57:10 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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