Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
John Adams was a lawyer, statesman, and political theorist whose writings and intellect were vital to American independence. Born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts, Adams attended…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Caesar Rodney was born October 7, 1728, on a sprawling farm in Kent County, Delaware. After losing his father in his youth, Rodney inherited wealth and responsibility that he used for the good of the…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Roger Sherman, born on April 19, 1721, in Newton, Massachusetts, was the only person to have signed all four of the most significant documents in our nation’s early history: the Continental…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Joseph Hewes, one of three North Carolinians to sign the Declaration of Independence, advanced the Revolution through his invaluable support of the burgeoning American Navy. He invested his own…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Stephen Hopkins, born on March 7, 1707, in Providence, Rhode Island, was a leading figure of early American patriotism and a respected legal authority. Though he had no formal education, Hopkins was…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
The only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon, born in 1723 in Yester, Scotland, came from a long line of religious leaders. By age four, he could read the Bible, and…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Edward Rutledge, born in Charleston, South Carolina, was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence. The son of Dr. John Rutledge, an Irish immigrant and physician, and Sarah Hext, a…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born on September 19, 1737, in Annapolis, Maryland, Carroll was one of the wealthiest and most educated…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Francis Lewis was a Welsh immigrant, merchant, prisoner of war, and supporter of American independence. He was born in Llandaff, Wales, on March 21, 1713, and educated in Scotland and London. After…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Button Gwinnet was born in 1735 in Gloucestershire, England, to Anne and the Reverend Samuel Gwinnett, a minister in the Church of England. After Gwinnett married and had three children, he sailed to…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
William Whipple was born in 1730 in Kittery, Massachusetts (now Kittery, Maine) into a seafaring family. After finishing school, he went to sea and became a ship captain by age 21, eventually…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Samuel Chase, one of the nation’s first major legal figures, played a key role in the early formation of the American Republic and its legal system. Born on April 17, 1741, near Princess Anne,…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jul 31, 2025
Carter Braxton was a wealthy landowner, businessman, and financier of the American Revolution. Born on September 10, 1736, at Newington Plantation in Virginia, Braxton graduated from the College of…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 12, 2025
Oliver Wolcott, one of fifteen children, was born on November 20, 1726 in Windsor, Connecticut. Oliver’s great-grandfather served in the first general assembly of Connecticut, and his father served…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Samuel Adams, born on September 27, 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts, was a passionate and influential voice against British rule before and during the American Revolution. A second cousin of President…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Josiah Bartlett was a physician, statesman, and Patriot whose intellect and vision earned him a place among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Born on November 21, 1729, in Amesbury,…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Abraham Clark was born on February 15, 1726, in present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. With little formal education and chronic illnesses that made farm work difficult, he pursued independent study and…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jul 31, 2025
George Clymer, a grandson of an original settler of the Penn colony, became an orphan at the age of one. He went to live with a wealthy uncle in Philadelphia, where he received an informal education…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
William Floyd was born on December 17, 1734, on Long Island, New York, the second of nine children. His father, a successful farmer of Welsh descent, raised the family with a strong work ethic and…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 13, 2025
Born on December 22, 1727, in Newport, Rhode Island, Ellery followed in the footsteps of his father, a prominent merchant and political leader, attending Harvard at the age of 16. After graduating…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 30, 2025
Elbridge Gerry was a merchant, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States. Born on July 17, 1744, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry came from a family of…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Lyman Hall was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, on April 12, 1724, as the fourth of eight children. He pursued his studies at Yale College, where he graduated in 1747. He became an ordained…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 13, 2025
John Hancock, born on January 23, 1737, in Braintree, Massachusetts, is widely remembered for his prominent signature on the Declaration of Independence. His contributions to the founding of the…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 17, 2025
Benjamin Harrison V was born on April 5, 1726, at Berkeley Plantation in Virginia. His father, Benjamin Harrison IV, held public office as both the Sheriff of Charles City County and a member of the…
Videos · The Road to Liberty · Jun 16, 2025
John Hart was born in Stonington, Connecticut, in 1713. His father, Edward Hart, was a farmer, justice of the peace, and public assessor. Soon after John’s birth, the family moved to Hopewell, New…