While the signers certainly risked their fortunes and lives, much of that essay is incomplete or inaccurate.
The Boston Globe
Monday, July 3, 2000
56 great risk-takers
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist
http://www.cltg.org/cltg/cltg2000/00-07-04.htm
Richard Stockton Recently Remembered
As I quoted on Thursday, the Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, published in the 1820s, described how Richard Stockton of Princeton, New Jersey, was captured by Crown forces, imprisoned under brutal conditions, and released in such poor health that he could do no more political work. He died a few years later of the effects of his captivity, the authors wrote.
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