Just 3 days before Patrick Henry made his well-known speech, a
committe of 34 Harford County citizens signed the first Declaration of
Support for Independence, known as the Bush Declaration on March 22,
1775. If you have any of these 34 men in your lineage, are second
degree of kinship back to the same parent(s) or grandparent(s) and wish
to join the newly formed Hereditary Order of the Signers of the Bush
Declaration, please view the following web site:
www.bushdeclaration.org ,Signer were: Charles Anderson, John Archer,
William Bradford, Sr., Thomas Brice, Samuel Calwell, Richard Dallam,
John Donahuy, Greenberry Dorsey, John Durham, William Fisher, Jr.,
Aquilla Hall, Aquilla Hall, Jr., Josias Carvil Hall, James Harris,
Francis Holland, Thomas Johnson, Robert Lemmon, James Lytle, James
McComas, Robert Morgan, William Morgan, BenjaminBradford Norris, Aquila
Paca, John Parick, George Patterson, Edward Prall, Alexander Rigdon,
Daniel Scott, William Smith, William Smithson, John Taylor. Edward
Ward, William Webb and Araham Whitaker.