Saturday, April 13, 2024

How Old Were the Leaders of the American Revolution on July 4, 1776? Younger than you think.





 





  • Andrew Jackson, 9
  • (Major) Thomas Young, 12
  • Deborah Sampson, 15
  • James Armistead, 15
  • Joseph Plumb Martin, 15
  • Peter Salem, 16**
  • Peggy Shippen, 16
  • Marquis de Lafayette, 18
  • James Monroe, 18
  • Henry Lee III, 20
  • Gilbert Stuart, 20
  • John Trumbull, 20
  • Aaron Burr, 20
  • John Marshall, 20
  • Nathan Hale, 21
  • Banastre Tarleton, 21
  • Alexander Hamilton, 21**
  • Benjamin Tallmadge, 22
  • Robert Townsend, 22
  • George Rodgers Clark, 23
  • David Humphreys, 23
  • Gouveneur Morris, 24
  • Betsy Ross, 24
  • William Washington, 24
  • James Madison, 25
  • Henry Knox, 25
  • John Andre, 26
  • Thomas Lynch, Jr., 26*
  • Edward Rutledge, 26*
  • Abraham Woodhull, 26
  • Isaiah Thomas, 27
  • George Walton, 27* **
  • John Paul Jones, 28
  • Bernardo de Galvez, 29
  • Thomas Heyward, Jr., 29*
  • Robert R. Livingston, 29
  • John Jay, 30
  • Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30
  • Benjamin Rush, 30*
  • Abigail Adams, 31
  • John Barry, 31
  • Elbridge Gerry, 31*
  • Casimir Pulaski, 31
  • Anthony Wayne, 31
  • Joseph Brant, 33
  • Nathanael Greene, 33
  • Thomas Jefferson, 33*
  • Thomas Stone, 33* **
  • William Hooper, 34*
  • Arthur Middleton, 34*
  • James Wilson, 34* **
  • Benedict Arnold, 35
  • Samuel Chase, 35*
  • Thomas Knowlton, 35
  • William Paca, 35*
  • John Penn, 35*
  • Hercules Mulligan, 36
  • Andrew Pickens, 36
  • Haym Solomon, 36
  • John Sullivan, 36
  • George Clymer, 37*
  • Charles Cornwallis, 37
  • Thomas Nelson, Jr., 37*
  • Ethan Allen, 38
  • Charles Carroll, 38*
  • King George III, 38
  • Francis Hopkinson, 38*
  • Carter Braxton, 39*
  • George Clinton, 39
  • John Hancock, 39*
  • Daniel Morgan, 39
  • Thomas Paine, 39
  • Patrick Henry, 40
  • Enoch Poor, 40
  • John Adams, 40*
  • Daniel Boone, 41
  • William Floyd, 41^
  • Button Gwinnett, 41* **
  • John Lamb, 41**
  • Francis Lightfoot Lee, 41*
  • Paul Revere, 41
  • Thomas Sumter, 41
  • Robert Morris, 42*
  • Thomas McKean, 42*
  • George Read, 42*
  • John Dickinson, 43
  • John Glover, 43
  • Benjamin Edes, 43
  • Samuel Huntington, 44*
  • Richard Henry Lee, 44*
  • Charles Lee, 44
  • Francis Marion, 44
  • Lord North, 44
  • George Washington, 44
  • Joseph Galloway, 45
  • Robert Treat Paine, 45*
  • Friedrich von Steuben, 45
  • Richard Stockton, 45*
  • Martha Washington, 45
  • William Williams, 45*
  • (Dr.) Thomas Young, 45
  • Josiah Bartlett, 46*
  • Henry Clinton, 46
  • Joseph Hewes, 46*
  • William Howe, 46
  • George Ross, 46*
  • William Whipple, 46*
  • Caesar Rodney, 47*
  • John Stark, 47
  • Mercy Otis Warren, 47
  • William Ellery, 48*
  • Horatio Gates, 48
  • Artemas Ward, 48
  • Oliver Wolcott, 49*
  • Abraham Clark, 50*
  • Benjamin Harrison, 50*
  • Lewis Morris, 50*
  • Lord Stirling, 50
  • George Wythe, 50* **
  • Guy Carleton, 51
  • John Morton, 51* **
  • Comte de Rochambeau, 51
  • Lyman Hall, 52*
  • James Rivington, 52**
  • Samuel Adams, 53*
  • Comte de Grasse, 53
  • John Witherspoon, 53*
  • John Burgoyne, 54
  • Johann de Kalb, 55
  • Roger Sherman, 55*
  • Thomas Gage, 56
  • James Smith, 56*
  • Israel Putnam, 58
  • Comte de Vergennes, 58
  • Lewis Nicola, 59**
  • George Germain, 60
  • Philip Livingston, 60*
  • George Taylor, 60* **
  • Matthew Thornton, 62*
  • Francis Lewis, 63*
  • John Hart, 65* **
  • Stephen Hopkins, 69*
  • Benjamin Franklin, 70*
  • Samuel Whittemore, 81

This piece is reprinted from Journal of the American Revolution.













Declaration of Independence https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2019/02/declaration-of-independence.html?m=1



US CONSTITUTION https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/americans-please-read-us-constitution.html?m=1




THE USA IS NOT A democracy!!!

IT IS A REPUBLIC

For which it stands!

Sound familiar!?

KNOW THE BIG DIFFERENCE!!!

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-usa-is-not-democracy.html?m=1


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