10 Secrets of our Founding Fathers

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Here are the top 10 most mysterious and shocking secrets about America's founding fathers even Ben Franklin's creepy sacrifices. Subscribe to American Eye http://goo.gl/GBphkv 4. Secrets of Alexander Hamilton One of our most influential founding fathers would be Alexander Hamilton of course and you see him just about everyday on our 10 dollar bill. He was the founder of the US Coast Guard, the federalist party and a signer of the constitution but his personal life was rather controversial. Despite him having several children, many would came he was actually bisexual. A large number of his private letters were exposed be with John Laurens, a South Carolina statesman and revolutionary war soldier. Some letters like this one can be found on the National Archives website and towards the end he questions his relationship with his wife. Many letters contained obvious sexual innuendos and Hamilton seemed to open up to him on a personal level which hasn’t been documented with other male counterparts. In 1791, Hamilton was also persuaded into having an affair with a woman who seemed desperate woman, Maria Reynolds, after her husband left her with a kid. He complied with giving her money to support her kid eventually. But it turns out Alex was the victim of a scam, and her and her husband had planned the whole thing! Alex had to keep her quiet about the affair by paying her off. Sounds like one of America’s first gold diggers and scandals! 3. Significance of Stars In Freemasonry, the star was help as an important symbol and was believed to hold magical properties of geometry. The families who held onto the sacred documents that were supposedly found by the knights templar were known as star families. If you take a look at George Washington’s family crest, go ahead and tell us what you see here. It bears 3 stars and red and white stripes. What symbols do we see on our American flag? Stars with red and white stripes. Just a strange coincidence? We even see the 5 pointed star in the masonic symbol known as the Masonic Blazing Star, which represents the Earth and depicted with a G in the center standing for Glory. Could the stars and the stripes represent George Washington’s coat of Arms and the secret society he was apart of? 2. Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson We all love to look at Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd president of the Union and a true hero to the American Revolution. He’s even on the face of mount Rushmore! He was of course a fan of freedom and wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men were created equal, but it seems a little hypocritical when the man owned over six hundred slaves throughout his life. Even though he acquired many of these slaves from his family, he did little to nothing for them to emancipated. He seemed somewhat against slavery in a few of his statements but he only went as far as saying that they should only be sent back to Africa. Being the owner of the Monticello estate, he was one of the largest tobacco plantation owners in the colonies at that time,. DNA tests are beginning to show that he also had relations with his slaves. It’s believed that he had over 6 children with woman 30 years younger known as Sarah’s Hemings. She most likely resembled this actress Thandie Newton, who played in a film as Sarah Hemings, since tales told of a beautiful mixed race woman with caucasian physical attributes. The couple also went to Paris with their children, when Jefferson had to serve as an ambassador .. who he later gave freedom to only after they turned 21. 1. Benjamin Franklin’s Lost Son We all enjoy seeing Benjamin Franklin in modern day times especially since he’s on the 100 dollar bill. But the ladies also enjoyed seeing the live version of him as well and he got the reputation of a ladies man. The woman who bore his first child, William Franklin was kept as a secret that’s eluded historians. Rumor has it that it was a prostitute who the Franklin family actually kept her as a maid the entire time for her to see her son and paid her a decent chunk of cash in order for her to keep quiet about the ordeal! The two cut ties when Ben found out his son was a loyalist! Awkward. William moved to London and his father wrote him one final letter on how disappointed his only son took up arms against him and d idn’t support the colonies! That might be what happens when you try to keep your kid as a secret by paying off his mom!