Funny how I get started on something and then something even bigger comes out of it. When I originally started this topic of American Letters, different ideas came to mind. I didn’t realize how many ways I could loosely use the term letter. It can mean a text, letter or card.
On a bit of a tangent though, this letter with my ancestor’s name on it has another man’s name on it. The man the letter is from; Joseph Hewes.
This man is the first of the 56 signers of the Declaration to have died in 1779. We don’t have the actual letter, but I have made a mock up several years ago. I have looked over the lines of this letter that someone made sure we had a copy of what was in the letter many many times. Finding this out is new to me.
One of my ancestors who may have been among our first generation Americans in our family from Germany, held a letter with not one but three signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
One of them… however, he was one of the first signers to die.
According to Revolutionary-War-and-Beyond.com/joseph-hewes.html he was the second man of the 56 to die 3 years or less after signing what was literally a death sentence.
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