Subject:  American Minute - Feb. 28 - Richard Stockton, Signer of the Declaration
Date:  Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:08:21 -0600
American Minute with Bill Federer

February 28

His grandson, Robert, was the U.S. Navy Commodore who helped freed
slaves found Liberia, West Africa, and in 1846 captured
California-the city of Stockton named for him.

His brother-in-law, Elias Boudinot, was a Continental Congress
President and founder of the American Bible Society.

His daughter married Declaration Signer Benjamin Rush.

His name was Richard Stockton. After he signed the Declaration of
Independence, the British invaded New Jersey forcing him to move his
family for safety.

Richard Stockton was betrayed, drug from his bed at night and
imprisoned in New York. His farm was pillaged and his library, one of
the best in the country, was burned.

His health broken from over a year in the British prison, Richard
Stockton died bankrupt at age 51, FEBRUARY 28, 1781.

New Jersey placed his statue in the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall.

Richard Stockton wrote in his Will:

"As my children...may be peculiarly impressed with the last words of
their father, I think proper here, not only to subscribe to the entire
belief of the great leading doctrine of the Christian religion...but
also in the heart of a father's affection, to exhort them to remember
'that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.'"



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