Revisiting Benson John Lossing’s account of the lives of these 56 extraordinary men.
When 56 men pledged “our lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” 250 years ago, none forfeited the first or last. But many lost great fortunes -- and sacrificed more besides.
“The signers of the Declaration everywhere were marked for vengeance,” Benson John Lossing noted in 1848’s Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The sad experience of Francis Lewis, a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress, was not terribly atypical. Lossing recounts that the British “not only destroyed his property, but had the brutality to confine his wife in a close prison for several months, without a ...
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