Benedict Swingate Calvert (ca. 1730-1732 – January 9, 1788) was a planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles…
John Jeffries (5 February 1744 – 16 September 1819) was a Boston physician, scientist, and a military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York…
John Randolph (1727 – January 31, 1784) was a lawyer from Williamsburg in the British colony of Virginia. He served as king’s attorney for Virginia from 1766 until…
Joseph Wanton (1705–1780) was a merchant and governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from 1769 to 1775. Not wanting to go to war with…
Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland, 23rd Proprietary Governor of Maryland (c. 1741 – 2 September 1784) was a British colonial official and the last Royal Governor…
Samuel Seabury was born in North Groton, Connecticut in 1729. His father, also Samuel Seabury (1706–1764), originally a Congregationalist minister in Groton, was ordained deacon and priest in…
Elizabeth Calvert (1731 – 1788) was the daughter of Maryland Governor Captain Charles Calvert and Rebecca Gerard, and a wealthy heiress in colonial Maryland. Her parents died when…
Edward Jessup (December 24, 1735 – February 3, 1816) was a soldier, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1735 and moved…
Beverley Robinson (11 January 1721–9 April 1792), a wealthy colonist from New York, was a son of the Hon. John Robinson of Virginia, who was the President of…