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Matthew Thornton Episode 2: The Flip – From Royal Commission to Provincial Leader | The Late Signer
What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 2 of The Late Signer — our 4-part deep dive into Brother Matthew Thornton.
The Irish immigrant doctor and last signer of the Declaration. After proving himself as a battlefield surgeon at Louisbourg and taking his Masonic degrees in a British Army Lodge, Thornton — once a loyal royal militia colonel — begins to question the Crown.
We follow his measured flip through the Stamp Act crisis, Townshend Acts, tense clashes with Royal Governor John Wentworth, and his election as President of New Hampshire’s First Provincial Congress in 1775.
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