John Carnes (1723-1802)

Your father paid your tuition at Harvard with pewter plates instead of money. Two different congregations dismiss you as their minister, forcing
you to become a shop owner to make ends meet.
When a British soldier robs your shop, you seek the harshest penalty the law allows. You become a spy
for George Washington. You get caught because of your lack of caution, and the British send you out of
Boston. You become a chaplain to one of Washington's regiments in the war.