Pennsylvania 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 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. This special volume about Pennsylvania includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Pennsylvania. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 44 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause.
In this volume:
- Introduction by former Governor Edward G. Rendell
- Foreword by former Lt. Governor Mark Singel
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Armstong, Sr.
- John Barry
- Jacob Broom
- Pierce Butler
- William Clingan
- George Clymer
- Tench Coxe
- John Dickinson
- William Henry Drayton
- Thomas Fitzsimmons
- Edward Hand
- Joseph Hewes
- Michael Hillegas
- Francis Hopkinson
- Charles Humphreys
- Jared Ingersoll
- William Jackson
- Philip Livingston
- William Maclay
- Thomas McKean
- Hugh Mercer
- Samuel Meredith
- Thomas Mifflin
- Gouverneur Morris
- Robert Morris
- John Morton
- Frederick Muhlenberg
- Peter Muhlenberg
- Molly Pitcher
- Joseph Reed
- David Rittenhouse
- Betsy Ross
- George Ross
- Benjamin Rush
- Arthur St. Clair
- James Smith
- Jonathan Bayard Smith
- Haym Solomon
- George Taylor
- Charles Thomson
- Anthony Wayne
- Thomas Willing
- James Wilson
- Revolutionary War Sites in Pennsylvania
- Index
by Farrell, Farley, & Knorr
Page Count: 268
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: October 24, 2019
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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