Graves of Our Founders: Vol. 2: Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites
Joe Farrell
Non-Fiction
Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites 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...
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Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites
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 second volume are biographies and grave information for 53 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause.
In this volume:
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Adams
- John Alsop
- Gunning Bedford, Jr.
- Daniel Boone
- Jacob Broom
- Abraham Clark
- Thomas Cushing
- John Dickinson
- James Duane
- Thomas Fitzsimons
- Nathaniel Folsom
- Nathaniel Gorham
- Cyrus Griffin
- John Hancock
- Benjamin Harrison
- William Hooper
- Francis Hopkinson
- Titus Hosmer
- Samuel Huntington
- Richard Hutson
- John Jay
- Thomas Johnson
- William Samuel Johnson
- John Paul Jones
- Rufus King
- John Langdon
- Edward Langworthy
- Robert R. Livingston
- Thomas Lynch, Jr.
- William Maclay
- Henry Marchant
- Francis Marion
- Hugh Mercer
- Daniel Morgan
- Gouverneur Morris
- Thomas Nelson, Jr.
- Robert Treat Paine
- Edmund Pendleton
- Israel Putnam
- Edmund Randolph
- Philip Schuyler
- Charles Scott
- Arthur St. Clair
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
- Thomas Sumter
- Charles Thomson
- Matthew Tilghman
- John Walton
- Mercy Otis Warren
- William Williams
- James Wilson
- John Witherspoon
by Farrell, Farley, & Knorr
Page Count: 334
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: June 16, 2021
Imprint: Sunbury Press
Genre: History / Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South
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