The following was written by Michael W. Smith:
https://michaelwsmith.com/the-sacrifices-made-by-the-declaration-signers/
"What happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
This is the Price They Paid
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
My research suggests there was never a point in our history (the history that we know about) where the Cabal, or their predecessors, didn't rule us by the creation of belief, through controlled opposition. My research has traced the same group doing the same thing in the same way all the way back to the Code of Hammurabi. The Code itself is a very enlightening read, I highly recommend it.
The Code of Hammurabi shows clearly how "Law" is constructed to fabricate a new reality. It also shows how society is separated into "classes" (a separation and control structure that never changed, it just became more hidden in the structure). The most interesting thing to realize about the Code is what is left out. There are no laws for the Priest class. That is how it always was, for millennia. And there are ties between the Priest class of ancient Sumer, and the Priest class of Jews, the Priest class of Catholics, and even the Priest class of Islam. All of which religions were created by the same group of people, none of which had rules for the upper echelons of that hierarchy. They were above the law, by Divine will. "Divine Right of Kings," e.g., given by the Church, who was the ultimate Authority. The Church could take away or grant the power of a King. The reverse was not true. This is how the world has always worked.