Chesapeake Patriots

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 LivesContributions, 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. This special volume about the Chesapeake region includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 22 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause.

In this volume:

  • Abraham Baldwin: The Founder of the University of Georgia
  • Richard Bassett: Senator #1
  • Gunning Bedford Jr.: Constitution Signer from Delaware
  • Edward Biddle: Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly
  • Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Catholic Signer
  • Daniel Carroll: A Catholic Patriot
  • Samuel Chase: First to be Impeached
  • John Dickinson: Penman of the Revolution
  • Elbridge Gerry: Founder of Gerrymandering
  • John Hanson: President of the United States in Congress Assembled
  • Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer: Elder Statesman
  • Thomas Johnson: One of the Original Supremes
  • John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!”
  • Edward Langworthy: An Orphaned Founder
  • Thomas Lynch: South Carolina Son of Liberty
  • James McHenry: Secretary of War
  • William Paca: Master of Wye
  • George Read: Triple Signer
  • Caesar Rodney: Rode for Independence
  • Thomas Stone: Pacificist Patriot
  • Matthew Tilghman: Father of the Revolution in Maryland
  • Nicholas Van Dyke: President of Delaware
  • Index

 

by FarrellFarley, & Knorr
Page Count: 126
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: July 7, 2021
Imprint: Sunbury Press
Genre: History

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic

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