Connecticut Patriots: Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites - Paperback

by Lawrence Knorr (Author), Joe Farrell (Author), Joe Farley (Author)

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. This special volume includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Connecticut. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 13 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause.

In this volume:

• Samuel Huntington - First President of the United States?
• Andrew Adams - Connecticut's Chief Justice
• Ethan Allen - Leader of the Green Mountain Boys
• Eliphalet Dyer - ". . . an honest, worthy man . . ."
• Nathan Hale - "But One Life"
• Titus Hosmer - Connecticut Lawyer
• William Samuel Johnson - The Great Conciliator
• Joseph Plumb Martin - Private Yankee Doodle
• Israel Putnam - Old Put
• Roger Sherman - Three-Fifths Compromise
• Noah Webster - Man of Many Words
• William Williams - Puritan Patriot
• Oliver Wolcott - Connecticut Yankee
• Index