Signers of the Declaration of Independence

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  1. 2. At fifteen he graduated and proceeded to study law at the office of John Moland in Philadelphia.
  2. 5. he was appointed clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1736
  3. 7. He studied at Harvard to be a merchant
  4. 8. His father died when he was eighteen years old
  5. 9. He served for some twelve years as Crown Prosecutor
  6. 12. He was captured by the British when Charleston was overrun 1781
  7. 14. He studied medicine at Yale College
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  1. 1. He decided to travel to England, but died in Alexandria while waiting for the ship
  2. 3. Friend of Tom Paine
  3. 4. He gained his freedom from prison in 1779 through a prisoner exchange
  4. 5. He was a member of the Suffolk County Militia
  5. 6. c He had loaned 10,000 sterling to support the revolutionary cause.
  6. 10. He emigrated to Cheshire County Pennsylvania
  7. 11. He died on the 4th of July, as the nation celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his splendid Declaration.
  8. 13. he served as the clerk of the Provincial Assembly, High Sheriff of Essex