...Rodney’s vote for independence was considered high treason and caused him to be branded a traitor to the Crown. As history records, Caesar Rodney gave up the possibility of receiving medical treatment in London because he voted and pledged his life, fortune and sacred honor for American Independence....Read the whole thing.
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There is a terrirfic book out there, Signing Their Lives Away full of stuff similar to this about each of the Founders, where they came from and what was their fate.
Sorry, not all the Founders but just the signers of the Declaration.
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