These are the entries who lived during the years before the United States became a country. They interacted and lived in the English Colonies, and sometimes they lived to see the birth of America.
Entries:
- Abigail Williams, One of the First of Salem's Accusers
- Anne Bradstreet, The First English Poet to be Published in the American Colonies
- Anne Hutchinson, Puritan Rulebreaker
- Annis Stockton, One of the First Published Female Poets in the Colonies
- Awashonks, Sunksqua of the Sakonnet Tribe
- Betsy Ross, ignore the shoes, recognize the good she actually factually did
- Betty Zane, Revolutionary War Heroine who Used her Apron to Transport Gunpowder
- Cora the Witch, Legend Behind the Cora Tree
- Deborah Sampson Gannett, Revolutionary War Soldier
- Elizabeth Proctor, Accused of being a Salem Witch
- Emily Geiger, Civilian Volunteer During the Revolutionary War
- Frances Berkeley, Wife of Three Colonial Governors
- Frederika von Riedesel, Wrote an Eyewitness Account of Her Revolutionary War Activities
- Grace Sherwood, The Last Woman Convicted of Witchcraft in Virginia
- Hannah Adams, The First Woman to Work Professionally as a Writer in the United States
- Hannah Duston, This Colonial Revenge Story is Sure to Sicken The Masses
- Hannah White Arnett, Revolutionary War Patriot
- Henry Laurens, Founding Father and President of the Second Continental Congress
- Israel Putnam, "Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!"
- Jane Dickenson, Indentured Servant and Captive of the Pamunkey Tribe
- John Peter Zenger, Give Me Free Speech!
- John "Jack" Van Arsdale, Happy Evacuation Day!
- Margaret Brent, The First Woman in the American Colonies to Appear Before a Court of Common Law
- Margaret Corbin, American Revolutionary War Veteran
- Martha Corey, Accused of being a Witch at Salem
- Martha Washington, The first First Lady of the United States
- Mary Barrett Dyer, One of America's First Religious Martyrs
- Mary Katharine Goddard, Newspaper Publisher and Postmaster General of Baltimore
- Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, one of the inspirations for Molly Pitcher
- Mary Musgrove, Interpreter & Trader who Helped Found the Colony of Georgia
- Mary Peck Butterworth, One of the Most Famous Counterfeiters of All Time
- Mary Rowlandson, Kidnapping Victim who Later Wrote About Her Experience
- Mercy Otis Warren, Political Activist for Years Before the Revolution
- Nancy Hart, Revolutionary War Spy & Scout
- Nancy Ward, The Last Beloved Woman of the Cherokee
- Ona Judge Staines, Escaped Slavery by Walking Out the Front Door
- Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"
- Penelope Barker, Organizer of the First Women's Political Demonstration in the United States
- Phillis Wheatley, The First Published African American Female Poet
- Rachel Wall, Possibly America's First Female Pirate
- Rebecca Nurse, Accused of being a Salem Witch
- Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's Secret No Longer
- Sarah Shelton Henry, Patrick Henry's First Wife
- Sybil Ludington, The Real Midnight Rider
- Thomasine Cooper White, Stop Calling Her the Butcher!!
- Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in the New World
- Weetamoo, Sunksqua and War Chief of the Pocasset During King Philip's War