From the Chapter, Revolutions Break Hearts:
For thousands of people, the Declaration of Independence was the beginning
of a long personal anguish. It forced them to chose between two sovereign
nations. John Morton, an old friend of Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania
delegate who had provided the vote that swung the state into the independence
column, summed up the anguish in a letter, "The contest is horrid. Parents
against children, children against parents."
Perhaps the most poignant personal story involved a name that loomed
larger than any other American's, even Washington, during 1776--Benjamin
Franklin. When John Morton lamented that the contest was turning fathers
against sons and sons against fathers, he was thinking of Franklin and his
son William, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, by that time under arrest
in Connecticut as an enemy of his country while his father voted for
independence.