Talk:Simon Boerum

Dispute Founding Father status

Text was entered by @User:Randy Kryn asserting that Boerum is a founding father as a result of having signed the Continental Association. No citations were included to support these claims. I am posting a dispute template to the lead and have a added text indicating the lack of support regarding the Continental Association as a founding document. I also have provided citations referencing prominent sources to verify my edits. Allreet (talk) 21:57, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

There is neither any source that says Boerum was not a Founding Father, which is the Original Research conclusion you added to the lede, which has been removed. As a Member of the Continental Congress, a delegate from New York, this makes Boerum a Founding Father, as there are plenty of sources that cover the idea that the Continental Congress was responsible for instituting, or establishing, or founding representative government in the colonies, and hence was an important part of the founding. Since Boerum was a delegate, this makes him one of the founders, regardless if you can't find a source that says he was a "founder". -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:58, 1 May 2022 (UTC)