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George Walton Episode 1: Virginia Apprentice to Savannah Lawyer – Carpenter’s Grind & The First Square | The Rough Ashlar
What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 1 of The Rough Ashlar — our 4-part deep dive into Brother George Walton.
The youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence. A self-made carpenter’s apprentice from Virginia who arrived in Savannah with calloused hands, relentless ambition, and nothing else.
We follow his raw grind: brutal apprentice years swinging hammers from dawn to dusk, teaching himself law by firelight while his uncle called him lazy, hustling in frontier Savannah, getting admitted to the bar in 1774, becoming a Master Mason in Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, and rising fast as…
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