Robert Morris

On July 2, 1776, the document was sent to Congress for consideration and debate.

two days later on july fourth seventeen seventy six congress unanimously adopted the declaration of independence of the fifty-six signers of the declaration of independence eight were foreign born These included Button Gwinnett, England, Francis Lewis, Wales, Robert Morris, England, James Smith, Ireland, George Taylor, Ireland, Matthew Thornton, Ireland, James Wilson, Scotland, and John Witherspoon, Scotland.

The Declaration of Independence Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress John Hancock, President Attested Charles Thompson, Secretary Signers of the Declaration of Independence Georgia Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton, North Carolina, William Hooper, Joseph Hughes, John Penn, South Carolina, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Hayward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Payne, Elbridge Gary, John Hancock, Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia George white Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Pennsylvania.

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Martin, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.

Delaware.

So this results in major financial catastrophe.

Uh, you have the, the patriot benefactors of our independence, people like Robert Morris, who is a, a very famous financier of that generation.

He is ruined because the Continental Congress cannot pay its own debts, even after independence.

They are still incapable of passing any reasonable measure to pay their bills.

And so Robert Morris ends up in debtors' prison before this whole thing gets rectified.

And that is a, that is a travesty.

These are the patriots.

And he went to to France.

He was in a partnership with Robert Morris.

They were not related, but Robert Morris, of course, was sort of the chief financier of the revolution.

And they were engaged in a business partnership.

And he went over to France to talk to people about business.

So he was, he started out as a very young man, as a member of the New York Provincial Congress, which was the first New York's sort of step toward becoming a state and moving away from being a colony.

He was in the Continental Congress.

He also served, this was, I don't know if he had an official title, but he was Robert Morris's right-hand man when Morris was really overseeing the financial part of the revolution.