This is the grave of Henry Knox. Born in Boston in 1750, Knox grew up in mixed circumstances. His family was upwardly mobile, with a successful shipbuilder as a father..
This is the grave of Mercy Otis Warren. Born in 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis grew up in the relative elite of eighteenth-century Massachusetts, which really wasn't that elite..
This is the grave of Deborah Sampson Gannett. Born in 1760 in Plimpton, Massachusetts, Deborah Sampson grew up with long Puritan roots that reached back to William Bradford. But the.
Martha Jones, one of our finest historians of the Black freedom struggle, has a powerful essay on trying to find evidence about the life of Abigail, the slave of John.
This is the grave of John Trumbull. Born in 1756 in Lebanon, Connecticut, Trumbull grew up in the New England elite of the Revolutionary generation. His father was Connecticut governor.
This is the grave of Thomas Nelson. Born in 1738 in Yorktown, Virginia, Nelson was part of the early Virginia elite. He was educated in England, graduating from Cambridge in.
This is the grave of John Hancock. Born in 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts to a prosperous and slave owning family, Hancock's father died when he was 7, but he went.
This is the grave of Robert Treat Paine. Born in 1731 in Boston to a minister father and the daughter of the minister who had founded Newark, New Jersey, Paine.
