Graves of Our Founders Volume 3: Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites

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by Joe Farrell

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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. Included in this third volume are biographies and grave information for 53 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause. In this volume: Thomas Jefferson: The Founder of the Virginia Dynasty - Andrew Adams: Connecticut’s Chief Justice - Samuel Adams: Boston’s Radical Revolutionary - Ethan Allen: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys - John Armstrong, Sr.: The Hero of Kittanning - Crispus Attucks: The Boston Massacre - John Barry: The Commodore - Dr. Josiah Bartlett: First Vote for Independence - Richard Bassett: Senator #1 - Edward Biddle: Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly - John Blair, Jr.: Grand Master of Virginia - Richard Bland: Planter and Pamphleteer - Elias Boudinot: President During the Treaty of Paris - Carter Braxton: Most Descendants - David Brearley: Judge and Master Mason - Pierce Butler: The British Soldier Who Became a Founder - Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Catholic Signer - William Clingan: Chester County Continental Congressman - George Clinton: “The Father of the Empire State” - Jonathan Dayton: Youngest Constitution Signer - Eliphalet Dyer: “. . . an honest, worthy man . . .” - William Floyd: Major General in the Congress - Christopher Gadsden: “Sam Adams of the South” - Nathan Hale: “But One Life” - Edward Hand: Lancaster’s Major General - John Hanson: President of the United States in Congress Assembled - George Robert Twelves Hewes: “The Shoemaker and the Tea Party” - Stephen Hopkins: “Greatest Statesman of Rhode Island” - James Armistead Lafayette: Lafayette’s Double Agent - Henry Laurens: First President of the Recognized USA - Benjamin Lincoln: Received the Surrender at Yorktown - James Lovell: Teacher, Orator, Signer, Spy - George Mason: “The Father of the Bill of Rights” - John Mathews: “The Disagreeable One” - Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg: The First Speaker - John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg: Major General Who Was a Minister - James Otis Jr.: “Founding Firebrand” - Thomas Paine: “The Mouthpiece of the American Revolution” - William Paterson: Author of the New Jersey Plan - Timothy Pickering: Radical Federalist - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: XYZ Affair - Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig): Sergeant Molly - Peyton Randolph: The First President - George Read: Triple Signer - Joseph Reed: President of Pennsylvania - Paul Revere: “Listen, my children, and you shall hear . . .” - George Ross: Lawyer, Colonel, and Congressman - Edward Rutledge: Youngest to Sign the Declaration - John Rutledge: “The Dictator” - James Smith: York’s Radical Revolutionary - Haym Solomon: Financier of the Revolutionary War - John Sullivan: Irish General - Artemas Ward: First Commander-in-Chief Lawrence Knorr has authored or co-authored over 20 books, mostly on history or biography. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Sons of the American Revolution, the Organization of American Historians, and numerous other historical organizations. He enjoys most writing about the formerly famous and his beloved Pennsylvania Dutch culture. He is a lifetime Penn State alum. Joe Farrell was born in Brooklyn and raised on the mean streets of Queens. He attended and graduated from Catholic schools in New York and went on to College at St. Vincent College where he graduated with a degree in Psychology. He studied Clinical Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Public Administration at Shippensburg University. He went on to an unusual 48 year career in State Government and two fortune 500 companies. He started in maximum security prison and ended his career at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. His first book "Jesus Runs Away" is a memoir of his youth. A very humorous and poignant account of attending Catholic Schools in New York in the 60s when the world seemed to have gone mad. Since teaming up with Joe Farley they have written over a dozen history books. They are very proud of their work especially since the nuns told them they would never amount to anything. Joe Farley was born and raised in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His high school graduating class from Hazleton Saint Gabriel's in 1970 was the last in the history of the school. At Saint Gabriel's Mr. Farley demonstrated his academic prowess by graduating 37th in his class of forty. He was the point guard on the school's 1970 state championship basketball team. Those exploits are covered in the book "Trumpet Call to Victory: The Final Years of Hazleton Saint Gabriel's Basketball." Mr. Farley then attended Bloomsburg University where after four dimly remembered years he graduated with a degree in education. In 1975 Mr. Farley began a 35 year public service career working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Upon his retirement in 2010 he began work on the Keystone Tombstone series with his co

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