AMERICAN HISTORY
SECTION 4
Steve Adams
Thomas Paine The Thomas Paine Cottage
Paine's former home and the place where he wrote his last pamphlet. It is
located in New Rochelle, New York and is open weekends and by appointment.
Fully restored, it houses many Paine belongings.
To learn more, click on the picture!
Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of
Independence and third President of the United States, was this nation's greatest champion of representative democracy and the rights of man. 
the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy ADAMS, sixth president.
Originally named Abigail Smith, she was the daughter of a clergyman in Weymouth.
Loyalists
Peter Salem -Peter Salem and two other blacks Cuff Whitemore and Salem Poor were honored for bravery. Salem became one of the
5,000 blacks to join the whites in Bunker Hill. Peter Salem had already fought at Lexington. Peter Salem got awarded for
fighting in the Revolutionary War.
The name Salem comes from the privatizing port where all of the sailers went during the Revolutionary War when
people were fighting on their boats.
The Mohawk Indian chief also known as Joseph Brant served as a spokesman
for his people, a Christian missionary of the Anglican church, and a British
military officer during the U.S. War of Independence. He is remembered for his
efforts in unifying upper New York Indian tribes...
Thayendanegea fought on
the English side during the American Revolution. At war's end, Brant chose to
remain under the Crown and requested land in Canada for his people. Through
the efforts and negotiations of Joseph Brant, the Six Nations were granted a
tract of land six miles in depth on each side of the Grand River from its mouth
to its source. In 1784, Brant led his tribes from their lands in the Mohawk
valley of Upper New York State to the Grand River Basin. Where they crossed
the river became known as Brant's ford. A village was established at Brant's
ford and, hence, the location and history of Brantford had begun...
Margaret Corbin Margaret Cochran Corbin fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive
pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A., orphaned at the age of five and was raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John
Corbin. John joined the Continental Army when the American Revolution started four years later and Margaret accompanied
her husband. Wives of the soldiers often cooked for the men, washed their laundry and nursed wounded soldiers. They also
watched the men do their drills and, no doubt, learned those drills, too.
Molly Pitcher An Artillery wife, Mary Hays McCauly (better known as Molly Pitcher) share
the rigors of Valley Forge with her husband, William Hays. Her actions during the battle of
Monmouth on June 28, 1778 became legendary. That day at Monmouth was as hot as Valley
Forge was cold. Someone had to cool the hot guns and bathe parched throats with water.
Deborah Sampson Gannet Deborah Samson was born on Dec 17, 1760 to John and Deborah Samson. The family could
trace their lineage to the Mayflower on both sides including such notables as Priscilla Alden
and Myles Standish. Deborah was the eldest of 3 daughters and 3 brothers. When Deborah
was about 5 yrs old, her father left to go to sea and was supposed to have died at sea .
