Continued: Next installment of the lesser-known signers of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Lynch, Jr. of South Carolina

Thomas Lynch Jr. was a scholar, legislator, farmer, soldier, and patriot who gave his life and family to the cause of American independence. He was the second-youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence and did not live to see the end of the Revolution. Born on August 5, 1749, in Prince George’s Parish, South Carolina, …

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A vacation to the Carolinas.

Neither hubby nor I had ever been to the Carolinas, so when we received an invitation to a Hillsdale College Economic Forum in Charlotte, I jumped at the chance to visit. What clinched it was the fact that one of the speakers would be the young database guru who goes by the X handle of …

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