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Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. This special volume includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Massachusetts. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 21 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause. In this volume: John Hancock: The Signature Abigail Adams: Mrs. President John Adams: Second to George Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary Crispus Attucks: The Boston Massacre Thomas Cushing, III: Protégé of John Hancock Francis Dana: Congressman at Valley Forge Deborah Sampson Gannett: Female Minuteman Nathaniel Gorham: President of Congress Samuel Holten: Physician Continental Congressman Henry Knox: ""Miracle on the Dorchester Heights"" Benjamin Lincoln: Received the Surrender at Yorktown James Lovell: Teacher, Orator, Signer, Spy Joseph Plumb Martin Private Yankee Doodle James Otis Jr.: ""Founding Firebrand"" Robert Treat Paine: The Objection Maker Timothy Pickering: Radical Federalist Paul Revere: ""Listen, my children, and you shall hear"" Artemas Ward: First Commander-in-Chief Joseph Warren: Hero of Bunker Hill Mercy Otis Warren: The Muse of the Revolution Index

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Lawrence Knorr has authored or co-authored over 20 books, mostly on history or biography. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Sons of the American Revolution, and numerous other historical organizations. He enjoys most writing about the formerly famous and his beloved Pennsylvania Dutch culture. He is a lifetime Penn State alum. Joe Farrell was born in Brooklyn and raised on the mean streets of Queens. He attended and graduated from Catholic schools in New York and went on to College at St. Vincent College where he graduated with a degree in Psychology. He studied Clinical Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Public Administration at Shippensburg. Joe Farley was born and raised in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His high school graduating class from Hazleton Saint Gabriel's in 1970 was the last in the history of the school. At Saint Gabriel's Mr. Farley demonstrated his academic prowess by graduating 37th in his class of forty. He was the point guard on the school's 1970 state championship basketball team. Those exploits are covered in the book ""Trumpet Call to Victory: The Final Years of Hazleton Saint Gabriel's Basketball."" Mr. Farley then attended Bloomsburg University where after four dimly remembered years he graduated with a degree in education. In 1975 Mr. Farley began a 35-year public service career working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Upon his retirement in 2010, he began work on the Keystone Tombstone series with his coauthor Joe Farrell. To date, there are thirteen volumes in that series. Farley and Farrell have also authored Gotham Graves Volumes One and Two. Mr. Farley also penned ""Song Poems in Search of Music"" in 2014 He and his wife Sharon reside in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. They have three children.

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