SkyMan 24,839 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 11 hours ago, Hoss said: Nice! I believe or read somewhere that Franklin was the oldest person to sign the Declaration of Independence at 70 years old and the youngest was Rutledge at 26 years old! One thing that is often overlooked is that all the signatories were reasonably wealthy individuals but in signing they were basically signing their own death warrants for treason. I doubt we have many in office that would stand up for the country that way today. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Headshot 29,414 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 11 minutes ago, SkyMan said: One thing that is often overlooked is that all the signatories were reasonably wealthy individuals but in signing they were basically signing their own death warrants for treason. I doubt we have many in office that would stand up for the country that way today. ...and several of the signers were captured and executed during the course of the Revolutionary War. It is amazing that none of the principle players were captured by the British. Link to post Share on other sites
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