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.

In a land where horsemanship was often men’s touchiest point of pride, Jefferson had to admit he never saw Washington’s like for grace and control in the saddle. A froniter runner and Indian wrestler — his friend George Mercer described his frame as padded with well-developed muscles — Washington had by 1774 refined mere energy down to a grace of least movement, the higher athleticism of the dance. And he danced well.

— Garry Wills

Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1978)