James Fortin's Decision to Serve Aboard a Privateer Ship

On July 8th, 1776, James Fortin would have heard the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time ever. What do we know about Fortin's decision making? Was he capable at 10 years old of making some of these political assessments and trying to answer these questions for himself? We don't have any of James Fortin's writings from that period when he was a young man in Philadelphia but we do know about some of the actions that he took.

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