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Drew Cline: New Hampshire’s Founding Fathers
Drew Cline: New Hampshire’s Founding Fathers

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” – Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence

Drew Cline, from the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, as we dicuess the stories of New Hampshire’s three signers of the Declaration of Independence (DOI): Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, and Josiah Bartlett

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