Graves of Our Founders Volume 3: Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites - Softcover

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Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. Included in this third volume are biographies and grave information for 53 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause.
In this volume:

• Thomas Jefferson: The Founder of the Virginia Dynasty
• Andrew Adams: Connecticut’s Chief Justice
• Samuel Adams: Boston’s Radical Revolutionary
• Ethan Allen: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys
• John Armstrong, Sr.: The Hero of Kittanning
• Crispus Attucks: The Boston Massacre
• John Barry: The Commodore
• Dr. Josiah Bartlett: First Vote for Independence
• Richard Bassett: Senator #1
• Edward Biddle: Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly
• John Blair, Jr.: Grand Master of Virginia
• Richard Bland: Planter and Pamphleteer
• Elias Boudinot: President During the Treaty of Paris
• Carter Braxton: Most Descendants
• David Brearley: Judge and Master Mason
• Pierce Butler: The British Soldier Who Became a Founder
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Catholic Signer
• William Clingan: Chester County Continental Congressman
• George Clinton: “The Father of the Empire State”
• Jonathan Dayton: Youngest Constitution Signer
• Eliphalet Dyer: “. . . an honest, worthy man . . .”
• William Floyd: Major General in the Congress
• Christopher Gadsden: “Sam Adams of the South”
• Nathan Hale: “But One Life”
• Edward Hand: Lancaster’s Major General
• John Hanson: President of the United States in Congress Assembled
• George Robert Twelves Hewes: “The Shoemaker and the Tea Party”
• Stephen Hopkins: “Greatest Statesman of Rhode Island”
• James Armistead Lafayette: Lafayette’s Double Agent
• Henry Laurens: First President of the Recognized USA
• Benjamin Lincoln: Received the Surrender at Yorktown
• James Lovell: Teacher, Orator, Signer, Spy
• George Mason: “The Father of the Bill of Rights”
• John Mathews: “The Disagreeable One”
• Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg: The First Speaker
• John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: Major General Who Was a Minister
• James Otis Jr.: “Founding Firebrand”
• Thomas Paine: “The Mouthpiece of the American Revolution”
• William Paterson: Author of the New Jersey Plan
• Timothy Pickering: Radical Federalist
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: XYZ Affair
• Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig): Sergeant Molly
• Peyton Randolph: The First President
• George Read: Triple Signer
• Joseph Reed: President of Pennsylvania
• Paul Revere: “Listen, my children, and you shall hear . . .”
• George Ross: Lawyer, Colonel, and Congressman
• Edward Rutledge: Youngest to Sign the Declaration
• John Rutledge: “The Dictator”
• James Smith: York’s Radical Revolutionary
• Haym Solomon: Financier of the Revolutionary War
• John Sullivan: Irish General
• Artemas Ward: First Commander-in-Chief

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