Researching Important People
during the
American Revolution

Databases

People in Colonial America

• Signers of the Declaration of Independence
• Biographies of the Founders, Framers, and Others by William H. Huff (writings and biographies of the founders and other important figures from the founding era)

Abigail Adams

• Abigail Smith Adams (from the White House)
• First Lady Biography: Abigail Adams (from the National First Ladies' Library)
• Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) - (from the Bunker Hill Exhibit of the Massachusetts Historical Society)

John Adams

• The Biography of John Adams (from the White House)
• USA: Biography of John Adams (from Revolution to Reconstruction)
• John Adams (from the American President)

Samuel Adams

• Samuel Adams: American Patriot and Politician
• Colonial Hall: Biography of Samuel Adams
• Sam Adams (from The American Revolution Home Page)

Ethan Allen

• Ethan Allen Homestead
• Ethan Allen (from The American Revolution Homepage)
• Architect of the Capitol: Ethan Allen
• Green Mountian Boys (from Historical Flags)

Benedict Arnold

• Benedict Arnold: Who Served here? (from Historic Valley Forge)
• Benedict Arnold's Leg (from PBS Online)
• Benedict Arnold: The Traitor Who Saved America
• Arnold, Benedict (search for Benedict Arnold from the Historychannel.com)

Crispus Attucks

• Crispus Attucks
• Crispus Attucks (from PBS)
• Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre (from essortment)
• Crispus Attucks (from About.com)

Joseph Brant

• Chief Joseph Brant - Mohawk, Loyalist, and Freemason (from Archiving Early America)
• Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Mohawk (from Indians.org)
• Joseph Brant (originally by Frederick J. Duckstander in Great North American Indians -taken from Native American Rhymes website)
• Joseph Brant Museum

John Burgoyne

• The Patriot Resource: John Burgoyne
• John Burgoyne (from the American Revolution Website)
• John Burgoyne (from the Massachusetts Historical Society)
• John Burgoyne (from Leaders and Battles Database website)

Charles Cornwallis

• General Charles Cornwallis (from the American Revolution website)
• Portrait of Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) (from Archiving Early America)
• Charles Cornwallis (from of the American Revolution: Traitors, Seamstresses, and Generals- ThinkQuest)
• American Revolution: Lord Charles Cornwallis (from About.com)

Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin (from PBS)
• Ben's Guide: Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Franklin (from The American Revolution Homepage)
• Benjamin Franklin: Revolutionary War Hero (from Famous Inventors.com)

King George III

• George III (1760-1829)
• George III
• King George III 1738-1820

Nathan Hale

• The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776
• Captain Nathan Hale (1755 - 1776) by Rev. Edward Everett Hale (from the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution)
• Patriot Nathan Hale Was Hanged September 22, 1776 (from America's Story from America's Library)

Alexander Hamilton

• Alexander Hamilton (from The American Revolution Homepage)
• Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (from the New York Historical Society)
• American Experience: Alexander Hamilton (from PBS)

John Hancock

• John Hancock (from Signers of the Declaration of Independence)
• John Hancock(search for John Hancock from the History Channel.com)
• John Hancock (from America's Story - Library of Congress)

Benjamin Harrison

• Benjamin Harrison (from Principal's of Freedom)
• Benjamin Harrison (from Signers of the Declaration of Independence)
• Harrison, Benjamin, (1726-1791) - (from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress)
• Benjamin Harrison Biography (from Focusdep)

Patrick Henry

• Patrick Henry (from Colonial Williamsburg)
• Patrick Henry National Memorial (from Red Hill)
• Patrick Henry (from the American Revolution website)

John Jay

• John Jay: The White House Dream Team
• The Federalists: A Biography of Jay
• The Papers of John Jay
• John Jay (from the Supreme Court Historical Society)
• John Jay Representing New York at the Continental Congress (from ushistory.org)

Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Jefferson (from The White House)
• Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
• Thomas Jefferson (from the Library of Congress)
• Thomas Jefferson's Quotes (from The Quotation Page)

James Madison

• James Madison (from the White House)
• James Madison (from Explore Montpelier, Rediscover America)
• Papers of James Madison (from the University of Virginia)

James Monroe

• James Monroe (from the White House)
• James Monroe (from Historic Valley Forge)
• James Monroe: Health and Medical History)
• The Battle of Trenton
• The American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Trenton
• Battles of the American Revolution: Trenton

Thomas Paine

• Thomas Paine (from - From Revolution to Reconstruction)
• Thomas Paine (from ushistory.org)
• Thomas Paine (from the American Revolution)

Molly Pitcher

• The Story of Molly Pitcher (from Fort Sill)
• Molly Pitcher (from Archiving Early America)
• Molly Pitcher (from Historic Valley Forge)
• Carlisle's Molly Pitcher (from Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of the Nineteenth Congressional District, Pennsylvania containing Biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the district together with an introductory historical sketch edited by Samuel T. Wiley, Esq. Second edition. Philadelphia: C. A. Rioff Company, 1897 -Contributed by Shirley H. Shope).
• About Molly Pitcher (by Constance M. McDonald, this article originally appeared in the August 1990 Edition of the Field Artillery Magazine.)

Paul Revere

• The Midnight Ride
• Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Paul Revere
• Paul Revere's Other Ride
• Silversmith (from Colonial Williamsburg)
• Boston Massacre by Paul Revere (political cartoon)

Betsy Ross

• The Flag of the United States of America
• Betsy Ross (from About.com)
• Betsy Ross: Her Life (from Archiving Early America)
• Betsy Ross (from People of the American Revolution: Traitors, Seamstresses, and Generals - ThinkQuest)
• Betsy Ross (from Women in the American Revolution)
• Betsy Ross Homepage (from ushistory.org)

General George Washington

• George Washington: Valley Forge: Who Served Here?
• George Washington Papers: Timeline: Colonial Period
• General George Washington's Campaign of 1776: Washington's New York Campaign (from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Military Science)

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