130: Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley The Real Molly Pitcher Born: 13 October 1754 Died: 22 January 1832, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States of America Her parents were German Immigrants and her birthplace is debated (either Philadelphia or New Jersey). Mary’s first husband was a barber who signed up to serve in the 4th Pennsylvania Artillery of…
111) Henry Laurens President of the 2nd Continental Congress Born: 6 March 1724, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America Died: 8 December 1792, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America He served as President of the Congress from 1777 to 1778 AD. Henry was also a plantation owner, slave trader, and import/export business owner…
104) Jack Van Arsdale When he was seventeen years old, he climbed the flagpole in New York’s Battery Park to tear down the English Flag and replace it with the United States’ Stars and Stripes once the Revolution War came to an end. Born: c1766 Died: Unknown His name might have been John. Jack swapped…
“I live a very dull life here…indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else,” -Martha on her time as First Lady 97) Martha Washington Former First Lady of the United States During Her Husband President George Washington’s Term. Born: 13 June 1731, Chestnut Grove Plantation, New Kent County, the Colony…
84) Patrick Henry “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” Born: 29 May 1736, Studley, the Colony of Virginia (Present-day Studley, Virginia, United States of America) Died: 6 June 1799, Brookneal, Virginia, United States of America A jack of all trades, Patrick was…
82) Anne Hutchinson Puritan Rule Breaker and Considered by Many to be One of America’s Earliest Feminists Born: July 1591, Alford, England (Present-day Alford, United Kingdom) Died: August 1643, The Colony of New Netherlands (Today New York State, United States of America) Anne got in trouble for preaching (big no no if you were a…
47) John Peter Zenger Free Speech for Me Please, Thank You Born: 26 October 1697, Holy Roman Empire (Present-day Impflingen, Germany) Died: 28 July 1746, Manhattan, the Colony of New York (Present Day New York State in the United States of America) Journalist and newspaper editor remembered today for his winning case in a landmark…
21) Betsy Ross According to Legend She Created the First American Flag. Born: 1 January 1752, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, what is now the United States of America Died: 30 January 1836, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Original Name: Elizabeth Griscom Ross Betsy was child number eight of seventeen in her Quaker Family. She received a…
20) Virginia Dare Literally America’s First “White” Baby Born: 18 August 1587, Roanoke Island, present day North Carolina, United States of America Died: Nobody Knows Virginia was the first English child to be born in the New World. She is also credited as the first European child born in the New World, however that assumption…