Roger Sherman was born on April 19, 1721, in Newton, Massachusetts. When Sherman was 2 years old, his family moved from his Newton, MA, birthplace to Dorchester. Where he spent most of his youth farming and learning the shoemaking trade.
Although he attended common school, he was largely self-educated. He studied law, became a judge and then Sherman's political career had blossomed. He rose from justice of the peace and county judge to an associate judge of the Connecticut Superior Court and to representative in both houses of the colonial assembly. Sherman was a longtime and influential member of the Continental Congress. He won membership on the committees that drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, as …show more content…
As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and The University of Pennsylvania, and he also helped to launch the Library Company in 1731. Benjamin Franklin also helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War.

Robert Morris was born in Liverpool, England, in 1734. At the age of 13, Morris was moved to Oxford, Maryland, to live with his father, who was a tobacco exporter in Oxford. After a very short schooling at Philadelphia, he obtained employment with a very well known shipping and banking firm. In 1754 he became a partner and for almost four decades he was one of the company's directors. Morris was elected to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, the Committee of Correspondence, the Provincial Assembly, and the Pennsylvania legislature. He was also elected to represent Pennsylvania in the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778. In the last body, on July 1, 1776, he voted against independence, but the next day he