Matthew Thornton Episode 1: Irish Ashlar to Frontier Surgeon – Immigrant Grind & Battlefield Steel | The Late Signer

King Solomon's Passport · Jul 4, 2026 · 16m

What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 1 of The Late Signer — our 4-part deep dive into Brother Matthew Thornton.

The Irish immigrant who crossed the Atlantic as a toddler, survived a deadly frontier raid by canoe, became a frontier doctor, served as a British Army Lodge Mason during the brutal 1745 Louisbourg campaign, and became the last man to sign the Declaration of Independence.

We walk the full honest grind: the terrifying childhood escape, the campaign where he kept hundreds of men alive under fire and disease, his initiation in a traveling military lodge, and the early…