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Baptized	August 15, 1652
Died	April 8, 1725 • Ipswich • Massachusetts

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Sarah Grimké

American abolitionist

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Angelina Grimké

American abolitionist

Oil portrait by John Trumbull of Alexander Hamilton, shown from the waist up in a tan coat and white cravat, gazing to his left against a dark background.

Alexander Hamilton

American statesman

Portrait painting of Thomas Paine by John Wesley Jarvis, showing Paine with graying hair, a white cravat, and dark coat against a plain brown background.

Thomas Paine

British-American author

portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

American author

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Anna Ella Carroll

American political pamphleteer

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Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer

American writer and critic

Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World…

David Walker

American abolitionist

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Jeremiah Dummer

British-American colonial agent

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Daniel Dulany

American lawyer [1722-1797]

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William Bradford

American printer [1663–1752]

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Nathaniel Ward

American writer

Engraved portrait of John Milton by Jacob Houbraken, showing Milton with shoulder-length hair, a lace collar, and period clothing, facing forward in an oval frame.

John Milton

English poet, pamphleteer, and historian

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

English poet

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

Daniel Defoe

English author

Engraved portrait of William Penn wearing a dark coat, white cravat, and wide-brimmed hat, with shoulder-length curly hair.

William Penn

English religious leader