Show two ne z C e del MC dy by ELMO SCOTT WATSON IIII HIS declaration of 0 independence pen dence li 14 tita ali charter of Aule american rican i freedom und and the etien who nig denatures signatures natures to it 1 in i calla one hundred and fifty 11 fly four yours years ago tire iro known ns americas nj CO immortals immortal st strictly r I 1 c t I 1 Y none of these 00 56 was tin nil am american alvan for till nil of them ua its citizens of tile tho british Col colonies onles in north america amerlyn tn were subjects 4 of III iris majesty Ma jePty king george III of klingl angland ln gland all d hut but what atiat Is oven evet more interesting Is in tile the fact that elgh kit of them were not even born on american soll soil and because of that fact it dinoy lie ile accurately stated that eight bellied win anier amer park laun independence by their part in tho the avont aveni wo we on mily july 4 of these eight three were born in ireland two in england two in scotland and one lit in wal fulua 0 att aks evely every patt or of the empire thus coll contil trib huton u led to tho the founding of u ow nation iHli lie ba deeply rooted ark in tile the tradition A fo few w of them rea rendered dered other services to ia tile he now republic which guar guaranteed anteA being by the which hoy helped bellied to found but tile tho most lost of them are nil all but forgotten now nosy so it can be fairly fluid eald stint illat their heir fume fame rests upon that one stroke of their pt pans ps curiously enough it Is tio alio of oi one 0 whish lias has perpetuated pet petua tinted ted hla fils name d nindo made it ra fa to lo thousands of that inan hum to Is button Owin gwinnett nett who was born lav in tid in 1732 tin same year that deorge washington was born ju thita country after being en in 1 hurt luosa in bristol fr sey era eral lie ho emigrated to charles dpn 8 0 ard then removed ti to fi ap on oa in 1705 he became a in purchased a n plantation on st Cath erlines island and known us as tile ending g ot of tile the colony of orgin ou januar y 20 17 1770 wits up ap cufr tz pointed a delegate to tile the culi continental tine ll 11 fill congress and tin ns as n fro filin 1 Jeor jeorgia gla signed tile the declaration of independence was reelected elected re in october 1771 1770 appointed it n inon itier of tiie the state government of georgia tit in 1777 and Is bild to have furnished lit ha tinsla basis for tile attico constitution that was adopted lit in march ot 0 lint year atiq ti waa HP appointed it prest preal dent oi 0 the llie provincial council but was an candidate for gover nor in may lie ile wail waa also on an tt unsuccessful candidate for the lie position of brigadier general of continental lori gade to lie ho levied lit ID georgia georrea nin bitt battered ered toy by tills and irritated by other incidents lit in which ills his successful op ceu cen lachland Intosh tag hi arod gwinnett challenged mcintosh to R i duel it was fought til at a dl of 13 feet on oil may 0 I 1 and hou iro nolt so tily that le ike dw 11 12 1 las days lutor luter deatra later when autograph callec ford ora complete sets seta of uw lve autographs ot of tho lio algnora Sl gnora nors it avig bervil that hint signatures fly tilts sta lesman mere nonexistent ills ilia untimely death lind had occur occurred ted becore lie lind occasion occa floit to sign ma amny ny public lie does doea tio seem to bave beep been it title tetter letter writer As aa far hault ack as iss 1880 0 a 11 OwIn gwinnett nett sold bold for korty forty years yeara fater ater one brought tile lie un ua flettre j 0 OC etc of ytje ak but this was only tile beginning A short dine later ister OffiD another ther sold for and lit in march 1027 it a letter fly y button owin nott nett aiu etric ae other signers was sold tor M aidoo iwa the other hagfish hon born signer wis was flobert morris whose tanie rests not so ifo much upon its ills signature elther either to that document or any CHUT us ui upon filipp ills causo gave gae klin uni tile the title of of the lie lie aa horn born lit in air cupoo nl angland ln gland Jot Jant inary iary 20 1731 iid nid iq Q I country at tl alii ase age 0 of f thir ticen entered the count UK bouto of clinkles Cli niles willing a iven Ivea liny littly philadelphia iner chint whore lio lie the trai mining tIng abat was to 44 h or of such value 0 0 lila ills country liter later V son Ili onins morris soon rose to a position of prominence in the quaker city elty end and bemuse been tise of tits hla opposition to the stamp IKI act IK I and other ether nieu involving colonial rights ike he wua was elected a delegate lel ceale to the Contla continental congress con grest which issued the declaration of imle lie ile was wua in 1777 jacq again in 1718 As ft a member of tile hie ways tin and means jle he ajol gioie e tha thuu a onye saved tile revolution hont h ont collapse altick of 0 the brilliant campaign of cle oen n anel 01 odeene pene in n 1780 was aa the sturdy sturdily figure of morris who had greene with the eions of 0 war and an lit in the same year tie lie raised which enabled washington jI ington niton to make film his dakh against corn pallia at yorktown Yirk town and bring lnla an end to the var nr elected of j ow finance lit 1731 1781 lie ho found the financial 11 situation desperate tito the boyei nun lit of the new nation was tit li delit anil and it se cincil that it must fall yon after it had won MOD its ita independence morris saved it fly organizing tile the bank blank or of north america with a capital stock of of which morris himself subscribed in 1780 morris was elected to the pennsylvania legislature and in 1787 flat bat tit in tile convention which trained framed the united 9 constitution in 1788 ho tio noreil nored litin by electing film to tile the first united valdeo states a post lie he held field until 1703 lie ile find been offered the post of secretary of the treasury tit in ing tons cabinet but declined it and alexander hamilton for tile tho position ue lie went into the kast east indian and china trado trade with morris but lila fits speculations specula tlona ended disastrously and it Is to the eternal of tile the nation which he helped found and more than once saved that for years yeara robert kobert morris was allowed to languish lit in a debtors deb tora cell lie ile died in philadelphia slay may 8 1800 only a tittle little less important historically tori cally than the two tavo born were like two scotch horn born signers jumes wilson and john witherspoon both were vere educators as welt well US aa S statesmen witherspoon ns as president af princeton Irin ceton college and wilson its aa a professor in the city college of philadelphia which later inter merged into tit the university of penn wilson wua was born bom at st andrews scotland september 11 2 1 unit emigrated to tills hils country in 17 1701 from tile tho first lie he espoused the patriot cause and after several irce P ea r na its provincial representative was ebos en to the continental congress to which he was wag twice reelected elected re it he served on several important committees of congress and was appointed of indian affairs for or the middle district at the outbreak or of hostilities tie lie became colonel of a pennsylvania regiment of militia and served in the new jersey of but soon was forced to retire front from tile the held to attend to tits his many civil thit duties les ater after independence ng avon lie was elected to roti Kresa in 1783 aind proposed the general plan of 4 tal litton which wits was adopted tile the ipar in tile the constitutional convention lie supported direct popular suffrage and a single executive and exercised much tn in de tile character of the die juu cuu which haq adopted after aate r the hie new went wt into it oper ollun under tinder the constitution wilson became a leader to la the federalist party and lit in october 1789 washington appointed him tin an associate justice odthe of the supreme court a position which I 1 tie ho hald until fits death in Eden edenton tob N 0 august 23 1708 1703 john witherspoon was born to in alf ford scotland february 6 5 1722 the son of a minister witherspoon was graduated from frold edinburgh Iti university in 1712 1742 lie ile studied theology and was ordained minister of the parish bf belth in 1743 1745 arid and installed pastor at paisley in 1757 in wi IT lie was moderator of the synod of glasgow and ayr ar ilo ile declined tile the presidency of princeton college in but accepted the second invitation and andIc caine kline to tile the united unita states all and ivas wn inaugurated president of Ill in 1708 witherspoon was wai the leader of the presbyterians Presbyter rians lans in tilts country and wits was influential n ni attaching tachIng the scotch and irish population latton of tile the col colonies onles to the patriot celse be because cause of kits his efforts in in behalf of colonial rights which caused it to be said bald of him that ho he was as high a son of liberty as any man in america he ha was chosen a genber of the convention that framed new jerseys first constitution a member of the provincial congress of new jersey in 1770 and delegate in the continental congress from flora 1770 to 1783 during the lie hii was a member of tile secret committee of the congress on the conduct of the war and a member of tile the bourd board of war or in 1773 1778 lie ile was also a member of new jersey council in 1780 of tile the assembly 1783 1781 1700 1790 and of the new jersey convention von don in 1787 to ratify the federal cons constitution tj to tion ile he became blind in 1702 1792 and died near princeton september 15 1704 although ireland contributed more of these eight foreigners who were signers none of them subsequently rose to such auch positions of importance in the new nation its HI did the english men and Scotch men previously men james smith was born in ire f tc eq land about 1720 coining to tills this country in IA 1729 when ills father emigrated to the susquehanna country in penn ienn sylvanin ai hanla where lie he became a farner farmer young smith sanith was educated nt at tile the college of philadelphia studied law and settled first lit in shippensburg burg as a lawyer and surveyor and later in york As aa evidence of tits his versatility smith next nest eti engaged I 1 in n the iron manufacturing business and was a man mail of considerable sid erable property lit at the outbreak of the file revolution lit in 1774 he raised the first company in pennsylvania for the purpose of resisting grea rea britain Ril tali and was chosen Us ns a member of the convention which met to consider it a policy of from froin 1 ang ng land lit in 1770 lie was elected to the pro vinulal conference which met to form a new government for there lie he distinguished himself by see sec ending the itte motion of dr benjamin rush in favor faor of a declaration of independence tills was unanimously adopted rod and presented to tile continental congress a few days das before the declaration of independence was offered ile he was a member of the con entson that assembled tn in philadelphia july IS 15 1776 to form a new constitution for the state and on july I 1 20 until lm 1778 having lost ills his fortune in tile the war smith returned to the practice of ills profession in which he continued until 1801 lie ile died in york sorl ill ia july its 11 asoo 1806 george taylors career closely par atless that of smith in many respects ite ile was born boin in ireland lit in 1710 lie he Is said to have been the son of a clergyman and to have received a good cooil education preliminary to his hia study of at medicine which lie abandoned in order to enit emigrate grate to Ahk america erics lit in 1731 lending leaving home penniless antl without tile knowledge knon ledge of his parents lie took passage as a toner and on his arrival in bound tb tin an iron er lit in durham pa ill tafoi wits was elected to the provincial assembly that met in philadelphia in I 1 iam 1 ft as n to the 11 a on and had bad a lending leading pirt part aea on in al the e on the 04 re rullus of tit charter lie ile was reelected elected re successively until 1770 when lie he returned to ills his business which had turned out to be tin profitable ln tta new ideation so 10 he went back fo durham dorham again agala he was sent to the provincial assembly arid was nas also pla cedon the committee of safety as the first rumblings gs of the revolution were vere heard lie ile was a member of the committee appointed to draw up oil instructions for delegates to the continental congress these instructions forbidding wean them to io vote for separation from england nn gland were revoked lit in june 1770 because five of the pennsylvania delegates hesitated to ogree to the declaration of independence pen fien dence others were chosen in their place on oil july 20 taylor was one of these find and taking his seat the day of ills his election lie he had his chance to become one of the immortals when the tha engrossed copy of the declaration was I 1 presented ed for the signature of the delegates on august 2 lie ile retired from the congress in 1777 and died in easton pa february 23 1781 the third irish erlih born signer was matthew thornton fraho was born somewhere on the emerald isle about 1714 and who emigrated with ills hla father to america two or three years later the thorntons Thorn tons first settled in maine blaine then removed to massachusetts where cwb was wag educated lie ile atud studied led medicine in leicester noil and built up a profitable practice in londonderry don derry N 11 during the french and indian war he went as a surgeon with the new hampshire troops to in tile the expedition against louisberg louisburg Louls Lou burg isburg later he was wai appointed a justice of the peace and also served aa as a colo colonel coloniel liel of the militia because of his fits active part in the overthrow of tile the royal government of new hampshire at the outbreak of the revolution doctor thornton was chosen president of the provisional brovis iona 1 l convention contention in ih 1773 lie he also se served i arvd as chief justice of the court of common pleas new and from 1770 1776 to 1782 as judge of the superior court of new lie ile was chosen speaker of the asi assembly embly in january 6 5 1770 and in september of that year was 6 elected delegate to the co continental 11 congress gress As in the case care of the pennsylvania delegates he was allowed to sign ills his name to the efi engrossed grossed copy of tile the declaration although he was elected after its passage and did not take ills his sent seat in the congress con cong giess vess until november of 1770 1776 ile he was re reelected elected for another year in december but retired from public tn in 1779 eventually he settled ld in newburyport muss where lie he died june 24 1803 1903 the sole welsh member of the bond of immortals francis lewis had a stirring career born in Llan llandaff dalf wales in march 1713 he be was left an orphan ai at an early age but was given a good education in westminster go school hool by tits his distinguished un uncle c IL the dean of 0 st paulo after a thorough training in the commercial life of london lie he decided to strike out for himself so it upon becoming of age so he sold 0 id ills patrimony invested in merchandise incise and embarked for tills this country where lie he established mercantile houses in new york and philadelphia ile he was at oswego in 1752 1732 serving as R a volunteer aide to gen hugh INI marcor ercer chian whian that post was capture capter ajl efaw ff aw hy by the french and indians indiana ne H was as given up its na a prisoner of a r to 0 the Ind indians lans ile he was taken to montreal and then sent to lim trance rice but finally dually was waa ete exchanged banged find returned to ills fits home |