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Josiah Bartlett (December 2, 1729 [O.S. November 21, 1729] [a] – May 19, 1795) was an American Founding Father, [1] physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He was a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of ...
John Stark. John Stark was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire [1] (at a site that is now in Derry) in 1728.His father, Archibald Stark (1693–1758) [2] was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to parents who were from Wiltshire, England; [3] Stark's father met his future wife when he moved to Londonderry in Ireland. [4]
Prince Whipple (c. 1750–1796) was an African American slave and later freedman.He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his slaveowner General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who formally manumitted him in 1784.
William Whipple Jr. (January 25, 1731 NS [January 14, 1730 OS] – November 28, 1785) was an American Founding Father and signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He represented New Hampshire as a member of the Continental Congress from 1776 through 1779. [1] He worked as both a ship's captain and a merchant, and he studied ...
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers ...
Stephen Symonds Foster. Stephen Symonds Foster (November 17, 1809 – September 13, 1881) was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public speaking, and for his stance against those in the church who failed to fight slavery. His marriage to Abby Kelley brought his energetic activism to bear on women's ...
Alma mater. Harvard University. Signature. John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. [1] He was the longest-serving president of the Continental Congress, having served as the second president of the Second ...
Ashley (1781), gained freedom based on constitutional right to liberty. Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1744 – December 28, 1829), also known as Mumbet, [a] was one of the first enslaved African Americans to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, in Freeman's favor, found slavery to be ...