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James Lacyunknown1740
 
1749unknown
Andrew Bradford16861709
 
17421742, Nov 24
 an early American printer in colonial Philadelphia. He published the first newspaper in Philadelp...
Josiah Quincy I17101735
 
17551784
 an American merchant, planter, and politician. He was the son of Col. Edmund and Dorothy Flynt Qu...
Samuel Richardson1689, Aug 191706
 
17581761, Jul 4
 an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: ...
Mary Alexander1693, Apr 161711
 
17601760, Apr 18
 an influential colonial era merchant in New York City. Mary’s life was divided between caring f...
Ann Smith Franklin1696, Oct 21736
 
17631763, Apr 16
 an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband...
Stepan Glotov1729 ca1746
 
17691769, May 5
 a Russian navigator, explorer, and fur trader. He was the first Russian captain to enter the wate...
Philip Livingston1716, Jan 151737
 
17781778, Jun 12
 an American merchant and statesman from New York City. He was a delegate for New York to the Cont...
Francis Lewis1713, Mar 211734
 
17801802, Dec 31
 a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York. He was...
George Taylor1716 ca1736
 
17811781, Feb 23
 a Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a represen...
Cornelius Harnett1723, Apr 101740
 
17811781, Apr 28
 an American merchant, farmer, and statesman from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a leading Ame...
Jonathan Trumbull1710, Oct 121731
 
17841785, Aug 17
 one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Rev...
Esek Hopkins1718, Apr 261740
 
17861802, Feb 26
  the only Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. He wa...
Benjamin Franklin1705, Jan 61718
 
17891790, Apr 17
 one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading aut...
Adam Smith1723, Jun 51748
 
17891790, Jul 17
 a Scottish economist, philosopher, and author. He was a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political...
Benjamin Harrison V1726, Apr 51745
 
17911791, Apr 24
 an American politician, planter, and merchant, a revolutionary leader and a Founding Father of th...
George Mason1725, Nov 301747
 
17921792, Oct 7
 a Virginia planter and politician, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, ...
Ashley Bowen1728, Jan 81741
 
17991813
 the first American sailor to write an autobiography. Although Bowen's career as a sailor was not ...
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