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[Illustration: {George Washington portrait and signature} ENGRAVED BY
T.B. WELCH FROM A PORTRAIT BY G. STUART.]
THE
SAGES AND HEROES
OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
IN TWO PARTS
INCLUDING THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE OF THE SAGES AND
HEROES ARE PRESENTED IN DUE FORM
AND MANY OTHERS ARE NAMED INCIDENTALLY.
BY L. CARROLL JUDSON,
AUTHOR OF A BIOGRAPHY OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
MORAL PROBE, ET CET. ET CET.
_REVISED_.
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STEREOTYPE EDITION.
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PHILADELPHIA:
MOSS & BROTHER.
1854.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851,
BY L. CARROLL JUDSON,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
Transferred to Moss & Brother.
Stereotyped by SLOTE & MOONEY, Philadelphia.
KITE & WALTON,
Printers.
PREFACE.
This volume contains the condensed substance of more expensive works
that have been published relative to the men and times of the American
Revolution. The character and acts of the most prominent Sages and
Heroes of that eventful era are delineated. A sufficient amount of
documentary matter is inserted to enable the reader to fully understand
the causes, progress and triumphant termination of that sanguinary
struggle that resulted in FREEDOM to the new world and prepared an
asylum for the oppressed. The French and Indian wars are prominently
noticed. More Revolutionary names are rescued from oblivion in this book
than in any other extant. I have introduced many practical remarks
intended to rouse the reflective powers of the immortal mind and
increase a patriotic love for our expanding Republic and glorious
institutions. These remarks are designed to be living epistles animated
with "thoughts that breathe and words that burn." There are many
festering wounds on our body politic that need probing to the
bottom--cancers that require the best treatment of the boldest operators
in moral, religious and political surgery. The text is concise and not
dressed in the dogmatical garb of _arbitrary_ punctuation. In preparing
the historical part I have consulted numerous documents and the most
approved works in our libraries. Once for all I award a general credit.
The relation of events is usually in my own plain laconic language. I
believe this volume as free from errors as any of its illustrious
predecessors. It has long been a cherished _desideratum_ in my mind to
place this _multum in parvo_ within the reach of every working man in
our land. I have exerted my best efforts to make it interesting and
instructive by blending a perspective chart of human nature with the
thrilling history of the times that tried the souls of the patriots of
'76. It is my ardent desire that it may prove beneficial to readers and
publisher.
L. CARROLL JUDSON,
_of the Philadelphia Bar_.
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 4, 1851.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
Adams John 7
Adams Samuel 24
Arnold Benedict 32
Barney Joshua 39
Bartlett Josiah 49
Braxton Carter 54
Butler Zebulon 58
Carroll Charles 63
Chase Samuel 68
Clark Abraham 77
Clymer George 80
Dickinson John 87
Ellery William 90
Floyd William 96
Franklin Benjamin 101
Gates Horatio 110
Gerry Elbridge 114
Greene Nathaniel 121
Gwinnett Button 129
Hall Lyman 132
Hancock John 135
Harrison Benjamin 141
Hart John 148
Henry Patrick 151
Hewes Joseph 161
Heyward Thomas 168
Hopkins Stephen 172
Hopkinson Francis 179
Hooper William 182
Huntington Samuel 186
Irvine William 189
Jefferson Thomas 191
Kalb Baron de 205
La Fayette G.M. de 208
Lee Francis Lightfoot 219
Lee Richard Henry 228
Lewis Francis 230
Livingston Philip 233
Lynch Thomas Jr. 237
McKean Thomas 240
Marion Francis 246
Middleton Arthur 251
Morris Lewis 255
Morris Robert 261
Morton John 267
Nelson Thomas 270
Otis James 278
Paca William 280
Paine Robert Treat 284
Penn John 288
Quincy Josiah 294
Read George 296
Rodney Caesar 300
Ross George 306
Rush Benjamin 311
Rutledge Edward 316
Sherman Roger 321
Smith James 329
Stark John 336
Stockton Richard 343
Stone Thomas 348
Taylor George 352
Thornton Matthew 355
Varnum Joseph B. 359
Walton George 361
Warren Joseph 366
Washington George 368
Wayne Anthony 379
Whipple William Jr. 387
Williams William 391
Wilson James 394
Witherspoon John 399
Wolcott Oliver 404
Wythe George 406
Yates Robert 410