Eight Foreign-born Signers Helped Found America
Elmo Scott Watson notes that eight of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born outside the American colonies, including Button Gwinnett of Georgia and Robert Morris of England. The piece details their lives, roles in the Revolution, and enduring fame from their signatures and contributions to financing and shaping the new nation.
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Philadelphia
America
North America
Wing George HI
England
Treland
Scotland
Wales
Button Gwinnett
George Washington
Bristol
Charleston
S. C
Savannah
St. Catherine’s Island
Colony of
Georgia
Gwinnett
Continental Congress
Continental Brigade
Lachland MclIntosh
McIntosh
Robert Morris
Liverpool
Charles Willing
Willing
Morris
Bank of North America
Pennsylvania
United States
United States Senate
James Wilson
John Witherspoon
Witherspoon
Princeton College
Wilson
City College of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
St. Andrews
Immigrant Signers and their rise in early America
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union piece traces Irish and Welsh immigrants who signed the Declaration, detailing John Witherspoon, James Smith, George Taylor, Matthew Thornton, and Francis Lewis. It covers their origins, education, roles in the Revolution, and later deaths, highlighting their influence despite diverse origins.
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Durham
Provincial Assembly
Committee of Safety
Continental Congress
England
Pennsylvania
Taylor
Congress
Easton
Matthew Thornton
Emerald Isle
America
Thorntons
Maine
Massachusetts
Matthew
Leicester
Londonderry
N. H
New Hampshire
Louisburg
Newburyport
Mass
Band of Immortals
Francis Lewis
Llandaff
Wales
Westminster School
St. Paul's
London
New York
Philadelphia
Oswego
Hugh Mercer
Honeymooners Hit by Damage Suit in Seattle
Two California elopers arrive in Seattle and are served with a $10,000 damage suit eleven days after a Reno double wedding. Albert A Heunisch and William B Dawson travel from Wheeling and Pittsburgh with plans to visit relatives when detained by highway patrol after a crash near North Bend that injured Joe Wilson and John Cusworth families. The suit seeks compensation from Dawson as owner of the car involved.
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Seattle
California
Reno
Nev
Wheeling
W. Va
Albert A. Heunisch
Oakland
Sylvia
William B. Dawson
Pittsburgh
Davison
Sivia
Chum
Heunisch
Justice of the Peace
John B. Wright
North Bend
Easton
Joe Wilson
Katherine
John J. Cusworth
Cusworth
Judge Wright
Wilsons and Cosworths
John J. Sullivan
Dawson
Beautiful Subway Is Goal of Paris Chiefs
Paris officials fear subways mar the city’s beauty and push to ornament stations with decorative stairways replacing plain cement and steel. Ads and posters may clash with boosting La Belle France product displays, but officials believe Parisians’ pride could prevail in the end.
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Paris Chiefs
Paris
Cat's Fur Affre Sets Entire Farm Ablaze
A tomcat whose fur was on fire from a spark while sleeping by the hearth caused a farm fire near St. Omer France. The cat fled to a barn where a hayrack ignited and the blaze spread quickly to the main dwelling and outbuildings, destroying the farm.
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St. Omer
France
Airmen to Photograph Capital's Traffic Jams
Washington officials seek Army Air Corps aid to study traffic and parking woes. Army airmen will fly over the congested capital to photograph conditions to gather data for rerouting traffic when new government buildings housing thousands of clerks open for business.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Army
Henry Harming’s lighter flames burn him at hospital
In St. Louis Henry Harming claimed his cigarette lighter worked too well and set fire to his coat sleeve. He suffered burns to his hand and arm requiring treatment at a local hospital.
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St. Louis
Henry Harminghouse
Henry
Not Worried Morden Parrot Survives Disease Tests
In Morden England a healthy centenarian parrot in Mrs Mary Martins home has lived as a pet for over fifty years amid reports of parrot disease but the bird shows no fear or illness, comforting the owner and others.
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Morden
England
Mary Martin
Early postal link from New York to Albany in 1672
As early as 1672 a postal service operated between New York and Albany. Indians were employed to carry letters between those points, indicating early colonial communication networks and Indigenous participation in servicing mail routes.
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New York
Albany
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Elmo Scott Watson
Thomas
Ways and Means
Nathanael
Greene
Yorktown
Offord
Middle District
New Jersey
Bilton Guinn Tr
Supreme Court
Edenton
Johni Witherspoon
Gifford
Haddingtonshire
Tinburgh University
Beith
Paisley
Glasgow
Ayr
Princeton
Board of War
Assembly
Ireland
James Smith
Ire
Susquehanna
Young Smith
College of
Shippensburg
York
Smith
Great Britain
Benjamin Rush
George Taylor
Montreal
Sons of Liberty
Board of Admiralty
Trinity Church
New York City
Western Newspaper Union
Joach
Gare
Luveg
Honeymooners
Rochester
N. Y
Pierre Decker
Decker
Snlow Daege
the Flowering Herb Co
Dept
Dakin St
Chicago
Marsielles
Ohio
Akron Beacon-Journal
Lydia E. Pinkham
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