20 GREATEST NAMES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- John Adams - Spoke favorably of Freemasonry -- never joined
- Samuel Adams - (Close and principle associate of Hancock, Revere & other Masons
- Ethan Allen - Mason
- Edmund Burke - Mason
- John Claypoole - Mason
- William Daws - Mason
- Benjamin Franklin - Mason
- Nathan Hale - No evidence of Masonic connections
- John Hancock - Mason
- Benjamin Harrison - No evidence of Masonic connections
- Patrick Henry - No evidence of Masonic connections
- Thomas Jefferson - Deist with some evidence of Masonic connections
- John Paul Jones - Mason
- Francis Scott Key - No evidence of Masonic connections
- Robert Livingston - Mason
- James Madison - Some evidence of Masonic membership
- Thomas Paine - Humanist
- Paul Revere - Mason
- Colonel Benjamin Tupper - Mason
- George Washington - Mason
- Daniel Webster - Some evidence of Masonic connections
Summary: 10 Masons, 3 probable Masons, 1 Humanist, 2 Advocates of Freemasonry, 4 no record of connections.
SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Known Masons (8): Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Robert Treat Payne, Richard Stockton, George Walton, William Whipple
Evidence of Membership And/or Affiliations (7): Elbridge Berry, Lyman Hall, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nelson Jr., John Penn, George Read, Roger Sherman
Summary: 15 of 56 Signers were Freemasons or probable Freemasons.
It's true that this represents only 27% of the total signers. But this 27% included the principle movers of the Revolution, most notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the primary authors of the Declaration. The former was a Freemason, the latter a deist and possible Freemason. If one were to analyze the Declaration, he would see the humanistic influences.
In any event, there is no evidence that even 27% of the signers were true Christians. In considering whether or not this is a Christian nation, it isn't the number of Masons that is as important as is the number of founders overall who were non-believers.
SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION
Known Masons (9): Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Blair, David Brearly, Jacob Broom, Daniel Carrol, John Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, Rufus King, George Washington
Evidence of Membership And/or Affiliations (13): Abraham Baldwin, William Blount, Elbridge Gerry, Nicholas Gilman, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Lansing, Jr., James Madison, George Mason, George Read, Robert Morris, Roger Sherman, George Wythe
Those Who Later Became Masons (6): William Richardson Davie, Jr., Jonathan Dayton, Dr. James McHenry, John Francis Mercer, William Patterson, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Summary: 28 of 40 signers were Freemasons or possible Freemasons based on evidence other than Lodge records.
Source:
http://www.illuminati-news.com/2007/0313a.htm
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