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Button Gwinnett: Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

Mark Cole Button Gwinnett spent the first 38 years of his life in England, arriving in South Carolina only in 1770. In 1772, he went to Georgia to buy a plantation. A native Englishman, he did not imm...

George Walton: Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

Mark Cole George Walton was truly a self-made man.  An orphan, he was apprenticed to a carpenter as a young man and worked his body incredibly hard by day but still found the strength and resolve to w...

Lyman Hall: Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

Mark Cole Lyman Hall of Georgia is a shining example of one of America’s great Founding Fathers. He came from old, New England Puritan stock and as such he was destined to follow in the footsteps of h...

Samuel Chase: Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

Mark Cole Samuel Chase of Maryland was born in 1743, the son of Rev. Thomas Chase, a learned Episcopal priest.  His father naturally desired the highest educational attainment possible for his son, so...

Thomas Lynch, Jr.: Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor

Mark Cole In the history of the Continental Congress, only one father and son served concurrently:  Thomas Lynch and Thomas Lynch, Jr., of South Carolina.   The father, Thomas Lynch, was like other de...

Edward Rutledge: Lives Fortunes and Sacred Honor

Mark Cole Edward Rutledge was, at 26, the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence.  He was also the most conservative. Young, educated in England, and wealthy, Rutledge did not always make ...

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