Freedom has never been free and this article illustrates the cost to the original signers…

https://1776patriot1776.blogsp...ned-their-death.html

Treason is the reason for season ! Our forefathers knew they were signing their own death warrants and if not death, certain ruin.

I have 3 direct ancestors that were patriots. I’ve been trying tiger into my local Sons of the American Revolution chapter but they are less than welcoming. To join you have to document direct lineage to people who fought or provided material support or were in the patriot government

One ancestor was strait up my mom line and was same last name as my moms maiden name

Another on my dads side was a Major in the revolution and his home was captured and used by Cornwallis

A third was on my dads side was a pastor and farmer and also served in the MA provincial legislatures. He was a MA delegate to the MA ratifying convention of the constitution and voted against signing because he thought but still gave too much power to a central government. After I found out about him and was doing research I found a receipt with his name and signature on it that sold at auction a few years prior. He arranged and provided 10 new rifles to his local militia and if was his reimbursement. He also wanted a religious purity test and even in the 1770’s there are documented quote of his. He did not want "...a papist, a Mohomatan [muslim], a deist, yea an atheist at the helm of government" The genetics run strong from this one in me !


I am very proud of all these patriot ancestors.

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A third was on my dads side was a pastor and farmer...
He did not want "...a papist, a Mohomatan [muslim], a deist, yea an atheist at the helm of government"

Wait... he was a pastor, who only wanted atheists in government? I'm confused.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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A third was on my dads side was a pastor and farmer...
He did not want "...a papist, a Mohomatan [muslim], a deist, yea an atheist at the helm of government"

Wait... he was a pastor, who only wanted atheists in government? I'm confused.

He was primarily a farmer and a lay preacher was also a justice of the peace. he did NOT want atheists, he primarily only wanted Christians. But voted against ratifying becuase the constitution allowed anybody of any or no religious to be elected.

Back then “yea” was yes or indeed it’s not a welcoming it’s him saying an atheist is the worst of the list.

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Treason is the reason for season ! Our forefathers knew they were signing their own death warrants and if not death, certain ruin.

Rush Limbaugh gave a version of this every year.
Freedom is not free.

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"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

When I think of this Declaration, it brings me to tears! True commitment!

Thanks for posting.

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Originally posted by ElToro:
I’ve been trying tiger into my local Sons of the American Revolution chapter but they are less than welcoming. To join you have to document direct lineage to people who fought or provided material support or were in the patriot government

As I understand it I have a twin-patriot Lineage
-The Civil line - 6th Generation Grandson
-The Military line - 5th Generation Grandson

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I have a number of direct ancestors who were active military in the Revolution. The SAR does require a lot of hassle to get into, and honestly I haven't figured what the benefits would be to membership.

The DAR has gone all DEI woke and are admitting trans who are men that think they're women.

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The DAR has gone all DEI woke and are admitting trans who are men that think they're women.

Well, I'll assume that when your membership drops you'll do anything to remain viable.

What Happened To The 56 Signatories Of The Declaration Of Independence

Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times,

Today the United States celebrates the 250th - or semiquincentennial - anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

While July 4 marks the day Thomas Jefferson's revised draft of the Declaration of Independence was adopted, it would take months for the document to be signed by all 56 men who would eventually affix their names to it.

Several key figures in American history - George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, among others - don't appear among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence at all, having been serving in military roles or other capacities at the time.

None of the 56 signers died as a result of their signature, but before the war was over, five would be captured, 12 would have their homes destroyed, and 17 would lose their entire fortunes. None of the 56 signatories ever renounced the cause of independence of their own free will.

Here's what happened to the men who pledged "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" to the cause of American independence, on the basis of "self-evident ... Truths" that not even a global empire - or a king - could deny.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...aration-independence

I have roots through my Dads Grandparents tracing back to England. On my Great great grandpa the lineage of the family surname which is Dad's middle name, goes to the kings of England, Empress of Holy Roman Empire, etc.
My Great great grandma' lineage goes back to England, and includes a long line of Norths. Dad said many time that family lore had us related to Lord North. I believe some of that line included the occupiers of Ireland. (Which is possibly why the Irish were so pissed) One was the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In the 1600s-1700s, Some Norths came to the colonies and some records show Norths on our side in the Revolution

Like many of us, I take time on Independence Day to read the Declaration of Independence and think about what it means to us today. I find it humbling that these men signed the final pledge, knowing what the cost could be, and bearing a great cost to themselves both during and after the war. God bless them all and those who follow.

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The DAR has gone all DEI woke and are admitting trans who are men that think they're women.

For those interested.

https://www.americanthinker.co...rced_to_go_woke.html


The Daughters of the American Revolution has been forced to go woke

Thanks to the toxins from Justice Neil Gorsuch’s decision about the Civil Rights Act, another American institution must now embrace so-called transgenderism.

Andrea Widburg | September 26, 2023

The Daughters of the American Revolution (“DAR”), a lineage-based organization open to those who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the American Revolution. When founded, and throughout its history, it was a defiantly women’s organization, formed by suffragettes. Now, though, thanks to the fallout from Justice Neil Gorsuch’s toxic Civil Rights Act decision, it’s effectively being forced to admit fake women to its ranks.

In 1889, the centennial of George Washington’s first inauguration, a group of men created the Sons of the American Revolution. When it refused to allow women to join, the women founded their own organization in 1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution. This was a women’s rights issue, especially given that the main founder, Mary Smith Lockwood, was a friend of and advisor to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

When you look at this 1913 picture of the DAR President General, Julia Green Scott, you can just see the suffragette vibes oozing off of her.

And indeed, Scott was a most remarkable woman, not just for her day but for any day. According to Wikipedia,

She was one of the largest landowners in the American Midwest, running multiple farms and owning tens of thousands of acres of land. After her husband, Matthew T. Scott, died in 1891, Scott took over as the largest shareholder and president of the McLean County Coal Company. She was presented the Medal of French Gratitude of the First Class in 1921 by Jean Jules Jusserand for her efforts to rehabilitate the French commune Tilloloy after World War I, and for helping find homes for over 4,000 French children left orphaned by the war.

I am woman; hear me roar!!

Given the DAR’s defiantly feminist creation and the roles it gave women in a male-dominated era, it’s simply criminal that the modern DAR is effectively being forced to pave the way to admit fake women. I say that because, buried deep within the Newsweek article reporting on the change, we can see that it is a defensive move because of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion about the reach of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

According to Newsweek, the amendment to the bylaws “‘clarifies’ existing policy on membership eligibility, [but] critics say it opens the door for anyone with a legitimate birth certificate stating that the person is female to be able to join the organization.” Given that birth certificates are now a matter of feelings, not facts, that does indeed seem to be a voluntary decision to introduce fake women into the organization.

However, the real motive behind this change seems to be contained in this paragraph from Newsweek:

The amendment added a line, stating that DAR and its chapters “may not discriminate against an eligible applicant based on race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.”

That’s the kicker. In 2020, Gorsuch’s opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, stated that, when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 used the word “sex,” that word must be understood today to mean “gender identity.” That’s complete nonsense, of course.

The Bostock decision applies to Title VII (the employment context), but it has fundamentally changed the law in America, given that the Supreme Court has opined that sex means transgender. Any organization that doesn’t want to be hit by a lawsuit—and the transgender crowd is a litigious one—is going to engage in preemptive surrender. That seems to be what the DAR just did.

As the child of legal immigrants who only came to this country in the 1950s, the DAR is not an organization that resonates with me. Nevertheless, what I do care about, deeply, is the fact that an ideologically corrupt Supreme Court decision is forcing transgender madness into every aspect of American society, destroying all in its path.

The institution slowly hollows itself out from within.

Yet again and again, left-leaning leaders fall for the same trap.

There’s a bitter irony in how an organization created to honor the sacrifices of America’s founders chose, on the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, to jeopardize its own future over the wish to accommodate at most five people.

The biblical story of King Solomon reveals a timeless truth: The person willing to divide the child is rarely the one who truly loves the child.

The women fighting to preserve the DAR as a female organization aren’t the ones demanding that the institution change its identity.

No, those willing to fracture it over the demands of two to five wannabe members are demonstrating a reckless willingness to gamble the viability of an institution that has survived for 135 years.

King Solomon knew how to identify the true mother — the one who could not bear to see the child divided was the one who loved it most.

The Daughters have a thing or two to learn from the mother in that ancient tale.