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Irish Arts & Entertainment John Dunlap was born in Strabane, County Tyrone in 1747. At the age of ten, he was apprenticed to his uncle, William Dunlap, a printer and bookseller in Philadelphia. The craft served him well
and of the Continental Congress, 1776-1777
as he was later to print the first 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence at the request of John Hancock. Dunlap
Geor ge Taylor was born in Ulster in 1716 and emigrated to America in 1736 at the age of 20. Taylor was indentured to an Ironmaster (the only signer who had that distinction) and ended up owning a foundry and was an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1774-1776 and kater served briefly, only 7 months in the Continental Congress. Ill health forced him from Public Service.
became an officer in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry and fought General Washington at the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
M atthew Thor nton was born in Ireland in 1714 and went out to America as a four-year-old child in the passage of five ships carrying 120 Irish families to Ne England. Apparently his family prospered and he was educated or apprenticed as a physician. Later he would practice medicine and become active in pre-revolutionary agitation before being elected to become a member of the Continental Congress in 1776. He was a Colonel of New Hampshire Militia from 1775-1783.
Thomas M cK ean was from an Antrim Family. McKean' father was brought to Pennsylvania via the city of Derry as a child and later married Letitia Finney whose family was also from Ireland. Thomas McKean was a very active and successful lawyer and politician. In his lifetime; he served as President of Delaware, then Chief Justice and later Governor of Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution, heamet, was a delegate to Lorem ipsum dolor sit the Continental Congress where hediam signed consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed the Unitedeirmod States Declaration of nonumy tempor invidunt ut Independence and served as a President of labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, Congress. McKean led the movement in sed diamfor voluptua. Atindependence vero eos et and Delaware American accusam et justo duo ea served as commander of dolores a patriotetmilitia group known as the Pennsylvania rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no ?Associators.? sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et
Edwar d Rutledge (November 23, 1749
July ~ August ? January 23, 1800) was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence. His father Dr. John Rutledge left Co. Tyrone, Ireland in 1735. Rutledge would raise a son to be 39th Governor of South Carolina. Edward Rutledge and his brother John were both elected to the Continental Congress in July, 1774.
Thomas Lynch Jr. of South Carolina was a signer by happenstance; his father Thomas Lynch Sr. was unable to represent South Carolina due to illness. His grandfather Jonas Lynch was from Galway. Sadly, the young Irish Patriot and his wife were believed to have been lost at sea on a trip to the West Indies in late 1776. Their ship disappeared and there is no record of his life after.
Geor ge Read was born in Maryland in 1733. He was the son of John Read and Mary Howell Read from Dublin who emigrated to Maryland. When George Read was an infant the family moved to Delaware. As he grew up, Read joined Thomas McKean at an Academy in Pennsylvania. He then studied law. and was Attorney General for the three Delaware counties and he served in that position until leaving for the Continental Congress in 1774.