Charles Thompson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was responsible for the first translation of the Greek Septuagint [Old Testament] into English.[2]
Francis Hopkinson, also a signer of the Declaration, was responsible for the first American hymnbook.[2]
Cesar Rodney, another signer of the Declaration, whose home State of Delaware (the first state to ratify the US Constitution) required that state officeholders sign a declaration of Christian faith.[2]
William Paterson, a signer of the Constitution, closed his speeches with Proverbs 29:2: "When the righteous rule, the people rejoice. When the wicked rule, the people groan."[2]
Thomas McKean, Pennsylvania’s Chief Justice, a founding father, said to John Roberts, sentenced to die for treason, "You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into Eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you on this world. It behooves you most seriously to reflect upon on your conduct, to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the Great and Merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely on the ... compassion of the dear Redeemer and thereby to avoid those regions of sorrow, those doleful shades where peace and rest can never dwell. ... It behooves you to seek the fellowship, advice and prayers of pious and good men to be persistent at the throne of grace and to earn the way that leadeth to Happiness. May you, on reflecting on these things and perusing the will of the Great Father of light and life be received into the company and society of angels and archangels and the spirits of just men made perfect and may you be qualified to enter into the joys of heaven, joys unspeakable and full of glory."[9]