Freemason

Benedict Arnold

Talented Continental Army general who defected to the British; 1741—1801.

John Dickinson

Lawyer, politician, writer, militia officer, signer of the Declaration of Independence; 1732—1808.

William Ellery

Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island; 1727 - 1820.

Benjamin Franklin

Philadelphia printer, writer, scientist, inventor, signer of the Declaration of Independence, diplomat to France; 1706—90.

Nathanael Greene

Continental Army general; key to winning the war in the South; 1742—86.

John Hancock

Boston merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Massachusetts governor; 1737—93.

Henry Knox

Continental Army general, chief artillery officer, first Secretary of War; 1750—1806.

Marquis de Lafayette

French aristocrat, Continental Army officer, like a son to Washington; 1757—1834.

John Marshall

Soldier, lawyer, politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; 1755—1835.

Richard Montgomery

Irish-born Continental Army general, formerly a British officer; 1738—75.

The Farm Book, plus the elaborate chronologies made by Jefferson scholars which document almost every day of his life, demonstrate that contrary to what Martha [Jefferson] Randolph told her sons, Jefferson was not only not distant from Sally Hemings but in the same house nine months before the births of each of her seven children, and that she conceived no children when he was not there.

— Fawn M. Brodie

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974)