Men Women King George III – The man who started it all Abigail Adams – Champion for Women’s Rights John Adams – Original Patriot Son of Liberty; Margaret Corbin – Captain Molly first vice president under Washington Lydia Darragh – Quaker woman of Conscience Samuel Adams – Original Patriot Son of Liberty; *Elizabeth Freeman – Freedom Petitioner there when it all began at Lexington Emily Geiger – Patriot Messenger Ethan Allen – Colonel Commandant of the Green Grace Growden Galloway – A Matter of Justice Mountain Boys Dicey Langston – Spy for the Patriot Army *James Armistead – War Spy and Scout Sybil Ludington – The Female Paul Revere *Crispus Attucks – Fugitive Slave, Patriot, Molly Hays McCauley – AKA Molly Pitcher Martyr Esther Reed – Organizer of the Philadelphia *Paul Cuffe – Wealthy Shipbuilder Association *James Forten – 15 year-old powder boy and Betsy Ross – Seamstress and Maker of our Flag prisoner Deborah Sampson – Patriot Soldier Dressed as Benjamin Franklin – Inventor, author, speaker, a Man Revolutionary Martha Washington – Wife of George Nathanael Greene – “Military Genius” Washington and champion for the Patriot cause! Nathan Hale – School master who posed as a Nancy Ward – Patriot spy and friend of the spy for Washington Cherokee Alexander Hamilton – Original Patriot; Mercy Otis Warren – Patriot Playwright Washington’s aid, served at Yorktown *Phillis Wheatley – Poetess and First African John Hancock – trader, smuggler, original signer American Author of Declaration of Independence, rich governor of Patience Wright – American Spy and Sculptor Massachusetts Prudence Wright – Commander of the Patrick Henry - lawyer, member of Continental Minutewomen Congress, speech writer Thomas Jefferson – Patriot, writer of Declaration of Independence **Women who are harder to find info for, but can John Paul Jones – Commodore of New American be combined in a report highlighting women’s Navy roles in the Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette – French noble who joined the Revolution Hannah Arnett – The Patriot Wife Who Would James Madison – “Father of the Constitution” Not Be Quiet Francis Marion – “The Swamp Fox” Penelope Barker – Leader of the Edenton Tea Thomas Paine – writer who roused the Party colonists to revolt; author of Common Sense Martha Bratton – Patriot Woman - champion of Paul Revere – Silversmith, artist, son of liberty, bravery and tolerance alerted Washington and Adams of the British Elizabeth Burgin – Organizer of the Great invasion Prisoner Escape *Peter Salem – Freed to Serve in the Revolution Mary Lindley Murray – The Woman Who Baron von Stueben – German Major who Stopped the British Army worked alongside George Washington; skilled in Anna Green Winslow – Educated in Spinning military drill practices for Liberty General George Washington – soldier, surveyor, Continental Congress delegate, first president *Prince Whipple – “Beloved by all who knew him”; served alongside Washington *African Americans Possibilities for groups: Spies James Armistead Nathan Hale Dicey Langston Nancy Ward Patience Wright Military Ethan Allen Nathanael Greene Francis Marion Marquis de Lafayette Baron von Stueben The “Molly Pitchers” – Women in the camps Molly Ludwig Hays McCauley Margaret Corbin Deborah Sampson Deborah Gannett Messengers Paul Revere Sybil Ludington Emily Geiger Writers/Artists/Craftspeople Mercy Otis Warren Phyllis Wheatley Thomas Paine Paul Revere Patience Wright Betsy Ross Anna Green Winslow Various roles of African Americans or women: Choose 4-5 that seem interesting to you (get cleared from me, first) .