Hazel and I spent fourteen years in Washington D.C., wonderful years where we immersed ourselves as much as we were able in the history of the place. This final clip of the musical 1776 is wonderfully effective I think.



The scene above had in mind this painting by John Trumbull,I believe.





1.George Wythe

2.William Whipple

3. Joseph Bartlett

4. Thomas Lynch

5. Benjamin Harrison

6. Richard Henry Lee

7. Samuel Adams

8. George Clinton

9. William Paca

10. Samuel Chase

11. Rich. Stockton

12. L. Morris


13. Wm Floyd

14. A. Middleton

15. T. Heyward, Jr.

16. Charles Carroll of Carrollton

17. Robert Morris

18. T. Willing

19. Benjamin Rush

20. Elbridge Gerry

21. Robert Treat Paine

22. Wm. Hooper

23. Stephen Hopkins

24. Wm. Ellery


25. George Clymer

26. Joseph Hewes.

27. Geo Walton

28. Jas Wilson

29. A. Clark

30. F. Hopkinson

31. John Adams

32. Roger Sherman

33. Robert R. Livingston

34. Thomas Jefferson

35. Ben Franklin

36. Thomas Nelson, Jr.


37. Francis Lewis

38. Witherspoon

39.S.Huntington

40.William Williams

41. Oliver Wolcott

42. Chas. Thomson

43. John Hancock

44. George Read

45. John Dickinson

46. Edward Rutledge

47. Thomas McKean

48. P. Livingston