- Stockton, Richard by Gabriella Frazier
... 1730–81) Revolutionary patriot; born in Princeton, N.J. He graduated from Princeton College (1748) and practiced law in New Jersey (1754–66). He was on the executive council for the province of New Jersey (1768–76). He served in the Continental Congress (1776) and signed the Declaration of Independence. Taken prisoner by Tories in late 1776, he was ...
- Paine by Thomas Hoffman
Thomas. 1737--1809, American political pamphleteer, born in England. His works include the pamphlets Common Sense. (1776) and Crisis (1776--83), supporting the American colonists' fight for independence; The Rights of Man. (1791--92), a justification of the French Revolution; and The Age of Reason. (1794--96), a defence of deism
- Williams, William by Nathaniel Miller
... c. 1727–c. 1791) painter; born in Bristol, England. A seaman, he arrived in Philadelphia (1747), painted, and constructed a theater in Philadelphia (1759). He wrote an autobiographical novel, The Journal of Llewellyn Penrose, a Seaman (1776), and produced fine portraits, such as Deborah Hall. (1766). He returned to Bristol (1776), and died in an almshouse ...
- Loudon, Samuel by Nathan Vega
... ca. 1727–1813) printer, publisher; probably born in Ireland. He arrived in New York City by 1753 and began to publish The New York Packet and the American Advertiser. In 1776. Although he was a stout patriot, some of his writings were burned by the radical New York Committee of Mechanics (1776). He printed the first constitution of New York (1777), Laws ...
- Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian Von by Dustin Cole
1752–1831, German dramatist. A friend of the young Goethe, he was a playwright for a theatrical troupe and later an army officer. His early work typified the Sturm und Drang period, so named after his play Wirrwarr; oder, Sturm und Drang [confusion; or, storm and stress] (1776); his later plays, influenced by Schiller and Iffland, are more reserved in tone. Klinger's other works include the ...