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destiny of the signers of the declaration of independence

https://www.nhccs.org/Destiny.html



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Richard Stockton

New Jersey Signer of the U. S. Constitution

https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/stockton.html

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Richard Stockton, a New Jersey State Supreme Court Justice, had rushed back to his estate near Princeton after signing the Declaration of Independence to find that his wife and children were living like refugees with friends. They had been betrayed by a Tory sympathizer who also revealed Stockton's own whereabouts. British troops pulled him from his bed one night, beat him and threw him in jail where he almost starved to death. When he was finally released, he went home to find his estate had been looted, his possessions burned, and his horses stolen. Judge Stockton had been so badly treated in prison
that his health was ruined and he died before the war's end. His surviving family had to live the remainder of their lives off charity.


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