Simple List of Important People
John Adams - Second President of the United States
Samuel Adams - American Revolutionary
John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the United States
Abigail Smith Adams - Wife of John Adams, second president of the United States
William Allen - Loyalist - former mayor of Philadelphia
Ethan Allen - American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.
Benedict Arnold - American General who defected from the American to the British side
John Askin - Loyalist fur trader, merchant and official in Upper Canada.
William Augustus Bowles - Loyalist and Maryland-born English adventurer
Joseph Brant - Mohawk leader and Loyalist during the American Revolution
Thomas Burnfoot Brown - British Loyalist during the American Revolution
Myles Cooper - Loyalist and President of King's College (Columbia University
John Dickinson - American Statesman and member of the Pennsylvania Assembly
Mary Draper - Woman who helped soldiers during The American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin - American Statesman
William Franklin - Loyalist, Govenor of New Jersey, Son of Ben Franklin
King George William Frederick - King of Great Britain and King of Ireland during the American Revolution
Joseph Galloway - Loyalist and politician
Simon Girty - Loyalist and Liaison between Native Americans and Britain
Major General Nathanael Greene - American General during the American Revolutionary War
John Hancock - American Politician, Entrepreneur, and Soldier
Patrick Henry - Founding father of American Revolutionary War and governor of Virginia
John Howe - Loyalist printer during the American Revolution
Thomas Hutchinson - Last British royal governor of colonial Massachusetts
John Jay - The First Chief Justice of the United States
Thomas Jefferson - Third US President and Co-Author of the Declaration of Independence
Captain John Paul Jones - Captain of the American Navy - "I have not yet begun to fight"
Brigadier General Henry Knox - First United States Secretary of War
Richard Henry Lee - American Statesman
Francis Lightfoot Lee - Active in Virginia politics and signer of the Declaration of Independence
James Madison - Fourth President of the United States
James Monroe - Fifth President of the United States
Margaret Catharine Moore - Helped the colonists during the Battle of Cowpens.
Thomas Paine - Author of "Common Sense" and Revolutionary
William Prescott - American colonel in the Revolutionary War
Paul Revere - American Activist and Artisan
Dr. Benjamin Rush - Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
Dr. Joseph Warren - Doctor, Soldier and Statesman of the American Revolution
General George Washington - First President of the United States
Phillis Wheatley - First published African author in America
James Wilson - Signer of the Declaration of Independence
