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What Did The Founding Fathers Say?
May 19, 2022

What did Charles Thomson have to say?

I am a Christian. I believe only in the Scriptures, and in Jesus Christ my Savior.

I am a Christian. I believe only in the Scriptures, and in Jesus Christ my Savior.

SECRETARY OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; DESIGNER OF THE GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES; ALONG WITH JOHN HANCOCK,THOMSON WAS ONE OF ONLY TWO FOUNDERS TO SIGN THE INITIAL DRAFT OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE APPROVED BY CONGRESS

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush; His “Travels Through Life” together with his Commonplace Book for 1789-1813, George W. Carter, editor (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1948), p. 294, October 2, 1810.

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