John Witherspoon
1722 Scotland – Princeton 1794
Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Presbyterian Minister.
“For my own part, of property I have some reputation more that reputation staked. That property is pledged on the issue of this contest: and although these gray hairs must soon descend into the sepulchre, I would infinitely rather that they descend thither by the hand of the executioner than desert at this crisis the sacred cause of my country.”
Marker is at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and N Street and 18th Street, NW, on the right when traveling north on Connecticut Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
