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Tobias Lear: Tobias Lear served as personal aide and private secretary to George Washington from 1786 to 1799. He was present at the First President’s death and controversially handled Washington’s papers after his passing. In 1801, Lear went into diplomacy at the appointment of President Jefferson, then joined the War Department.

Elias Boudinot: Statesman Elias Boudinot served as New Jersey’s delegate to the Continental Congress. After the Revolution, he served as its Congressman and then was appointed Director of the U.S. Mint.

John Trumbull was an artist known for paintings of people and events in the American Revolution. Serving in the Continental Army in the early months of the conflict, he went on to create famous history works and portraits of his era’s leading figures and critical moments from the war.

Studies taken from the pages of American Spirit Magazine. Learn more about Phyllis Wheatley and the Brewster Sisters.

His decision went against his family’s and his country’s wishes, but it turned out to be a fortuitous one for the Patriots. Lafayette played a key role in securing America’s independence from England and won the hearts of Americans, who would lovingly refer to the Frenchman as “our marquis” long after he returned home. But while some worry that the marquis has faded from modern America’s consciousness, his admirers hoped to revive Lafayette’s memory with events surrounding his 250th birthday. The international celebration focusied the spotlight on one of the most revered heroes of the American Revolution. We

Legal scholar and teacher George Wythe influenced such figures as Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and James Monroe with his brilliant mind and Enlightenment views on government and the law. He was delegate to Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1806 he died at age 80, potentially poisoned by his own grandnephew.