Keeping History Alive – WAMU, Autumn 2014

 

From WAMU.ORG: “Laura Belman descends from not one, not two, but three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Chase of Maryland, Oliver Wolcott of Connecticut, and William Ellery of Rhode Island. And she knows exactly what you’re going to say. “You’re going to say, ‘How did that happen?’” she says with a smile. “It happened because three of my four grandparents each had a signer in their ancestry.””
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