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John Paul Jones
b. 7-6-1747; Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
d. 7-18-1792; Paris, France; interred at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD in 1913
John Paul, who added the ‘Jones’ after settling in the colonies, was the first well known United States naval officer. Jones was able to harass British shipping as well as invade the English port of Whitehaven in 1778.
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Henry Knox
b. 7-25-1750; Boston, MA
d. 10-25-1806; Maine
Henry Knox, a self-educated bookseller from Boston, became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War.
Knox was present at the Boston Massacre, was in charge of moving Washington's army across the Delaware River for the Battle of Trenton, and was eventually the first U.S. Secretary of War.
FYI - Fort Knox, KY is named for Henry Knox.
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
b. 2-4-1746; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
d. 10-15-1817; Switzerland (typhoid)
Tadeusz Kosciuszko served the American cause as a military engineer, first as a volunteer and later a commissioned officer. The fortifications he supervised contributed significantly to the American victory at Saratoga.
Kosciuszko became a naturalized citizen and was awarded a grant of land by Congress; Kosciuszko also wrote his will instructing Thomas Jefferson, as the executor, that proceeds from his estate should be used to purchase the freedom of black slaves.
Kosciuszko returned to Poland where he revered as a national hero. He also freed his serfs before his death from typhoid fever.
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Marquis de Lafayette
b. 9-6-1757; Chavaniac, France
d. 5-20-1834; Paris
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de la Fayette, simply known as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer. He renounced his title and donated both money and his time to the American colonies in their fight for independence from Britain. Lafayette also worked for the abolition of slavery, and participated in the French Revolution. Many places in the U.S. are named Lafayette, Fayette, or Fayetteville in commemoration of him.
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John Lamb
b. 1-1-1735; New York City, NY
d. 5-31-1800
John Lamb was a leader in the Sons of Liberty prior to the Revolutionary War, served and was wounded in the Battle of Quebec, and commanded artillery at West Point 1779-80. He was an Anti-Federalist.
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Richard Henry Lee
b. 1-20-1732; Westmoreland Co., Virginia
d. 6-19-1794; VA
Richard Henry Lee, a Virginia planter is best remembered for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. Lee's famous June 1776 resolution (issued verbatim from the instructions he received from the Virginia Convention) led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed.
Lee also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving as one of the first Presidents pro tempore when necessary.
(FYI - Richard Henry Lee was second cousin to the father of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee.)
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Robert R. Livingston
b. 11-27-1746; New York City, NY
d. 2-26-1813; Clermont, NY
Robert Livingston, “The Chancellor”, was a lawyer and one of the Committee of Five who drafted the Declaration of Independence though he was recalled by New York before he could sign the document. Livingston also administered the Oath of Office to George Washington.
As a diplomat he served as the U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1781 to 1783 and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. While in France he met Robert Fulton, who developed the first viable steamboat - it was named the Clermont for Livingston's family home.
Continental Army officer James Livingston, another member of this influential family, thwarted Benedict Arnold's plans and was the maternal grandfather of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
FYI - The Court of Chancery, established in 1701, was the original judiciary in New York and overseen by the colonial governor acting as Chancellor.
FYI - The Livingston family is also connected to the family of President Bush.
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