...between them and Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally absolved." Francis Lightfoot Lee was also a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ; while Arthur Lee was entrusted in the all-important foreign mission on...

...supported by Judge Thomas McKean. McKean was another Scotch-Irishman, though born in America. He had been a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. At this time he was chief justice of Pennsylvania and was afterward governor...

...maternal sides from the earliest settlers of New England. His grandfather, John Wentworth, Jr., was a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation in 1778, under which the government was carried on until the adoption of the Constitution, nine years...

...largely in judicial and public life until the time oi his death in 1746. Hon. William Ellery was a va'urJ member of the Continental Congress, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Subsequent generations have not relimiuished the prestige and honored...

...him as the preceptor of his nephew Bushrod Washington. He was for six years, though not continuously, a member of the Continental Congress, and was one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. As an orator he held high rank both as an advocate and a parliamentary...

...hair fashionably in a long queue with a black-silk ribbon, and wore knee-breeches and high boots, was a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In the Continental Congress his executive work as President of the Revolutionary...

...first to read it to his neighbors and constituents. When he had finished, so great was their joy aud enthusiasm that they mounted him upon their shoulders...return to their allegiance to the crown, Harnett and Robert Howe were alone excepted as arch traitors. It was his misfortune to fall Into the hands of hie...