Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
By order of his majesty, King George III, the following individuals have been declared traitors to the Crown and shall be arrested and tried for their crimes.
Help!! We have been given the task of preparing the documents with the information on the those individuals who King George III has just declared as traitors to the Crown. We need for you, who are from the colonies, to send us pictures and biographical sketches of these individuals from the colonies listed below.
Please follow the directions below in preparing your information. It will make our job of publishing to the King's liking...and we all know how important it is to keep the King happy!!
Your Task
You will begin by using the references below to write a biographical sketch of the individual(s) you are assigned, as well as finding a picture of the individual(s). You will save this information to disk and then will transfer the information to Microsoft Publisher and will create a brochure for each colony showing the revolutionaries from that colony.
Colony: Individual
Massachusetts John Adams
Samuel Adams
Robert Trent Paine
Elbridge Gerry
New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Matthew Thornton
New York William Floyd
Phillip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
Pennsylvania Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas M’Kean
Georgia Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Maryland Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia Thomas Jefferson
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
North Carolina William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
New Jersey Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
The King has also added these individuals to the list:
Nathan Hale
Frances "Swamp Fox" Marion
Deborah Sampson Gannett
Jemima Wilkinson
Bendict Arnold
John Jay
Nathanael Greene
John Hancock
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Paine
James Monroe
Peter Salem
Thomas Forten
Resources
http://earlyamerica.com/portraits/index.html
http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/13colyns.html
http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghistar.shtml
Britannica-Newsweek Internet Guide
The American Revolution - History--The 18th Century - Net Links
http://intranet.fayette.k12.ky.us
USA: index to biographies-area
Ask Jeeves Answer: Colonial Hall: Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
Search Archiving Early America here type in founding fathers and search again and type in revolutionaries.
You will get information and pictures of some of the individuals on the list.
Your teacher will have a lists of books and the library will have additional encyclopedias.
Additional directions on saving pictures and text to disk
How to save a picture
Once you have the picture you desire, using the right mouse button, click once on the picture and a dialog box will appear. Click on save picture and tell it to go to the A: drive. You will want to name your picture. A light will come on the A: drive. This means it is saving your picture. When the light goes out, you may move onto another site, open a word document or take the disk out of the A: drive.
How to type your biographical sketch