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He is regarded as one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.

John Adams

Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, he played a leading role in persuading Congress to adopt the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. As a representative of Congress in Europe, he was a major negotiator of the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and chiefly responsible for obtaining important loans from Amsterdam.

The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

Prominent citizens of the colony, including George Washington, a neighbor and a close friend, visited frequently, and Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the first member of the British nobility to reside in the colonies, lived at Belvoir before he moved to the Shenandoah Valley. Despite the grandeur of their surroundings and the refinement of their furnishings, planters like the Masons, McCartys, Washingtons, and Fairfaxes did not lead indolent lives. Conscious of their civic duty, they were the political, social, economic, and religious leaders of their immediate neighborhood and of the colony at large.

wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States

Abigail Adams

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799)[1] served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779 and subsequently, from 1784 to 1786. A prominent figure in the American Revolution, Henry is known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech

Tarring and feathering was a physical punishment, used to enforce formal justice in feudal Europe and informal justice in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance

In a typical tar-and-feathers attack, the subject of a crowd's anger would be stripped to the waist. Boiling hot[citation needed] tar was either poured or painted onto the person while he or she was immobilized. Then the victim either had feathers thrown on him or her or was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to the tar. Often the victim was then paraded around town on a cart or a rail. The aim was to hurt and humiliate a person enough to leave town and not cause any more mischief.

The Albany Congress, also known as the Albany Conference, was a meeting of representatives of seven of the British North American colonies in 1754 (specifically, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island). Representatives met daily at Albany, New York from June 19 to July 11 to discuss better relations with the Indian tribes and common defensive measures against the French. The Congress is notable for producing Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union, an early attempt to form a union of the colonies that would remain under the authority of the British crown. Part of the Albany Plan was used in writing the Articles of Confederation, which kept the States together from 1781 until the Constitution. It was the first time that all the colonies had been together.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620

Men John Allerton? Richard Britteridge, December 21 Robert Carter, after February 21 James Chilton, December 8 Richard Clarke John Crackstone Sr.? Thomas English? Moses Fletcher? Edward Fuller John Goodman - William Holbeck? John Langmore Edmund Margesson? Christopher Martin, January 8 William Mullins, February 21 Degory Priest, January 1 John Rigsdale Thomas Rogers Elias Story Edward Thompson, December 4 Edward Tilley John Tilley Thomas Tinker John Turner William White, February 21 Roger Wilder Thomas Williams Weedle The Beetle [edit] Women Mary (Norris) Allerton, February 25, wife of Isaac Allerton, reportedly in childbirth, baby was stillborn.[4] Dorothy (May) Bradford, December 7 Mrs. James Chilton Sarah Eaton Mrs. Edward Fuller Mary (Prower) Martin Alice Mullins April? Alice Rigsdale Ann (Cooper) Tilley Joan (Hurst) Tilley Mrs. Thomas Tinker Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, March 24 Alice Closford, October 24 [edit] Children William Butten, November 6 (died at sea, the only passenger to die during the journey) John Hooke (age 14) Ellen More (age 8) Jasper More (age 7), December 6 Mary More (age 6) Joseph Mullins April? Solomon Prower, December 24 son of Thomas Tinker son of John Turner another son of John Turner [edit] Statistics by month [edit] Winter According to Bradford's Register[5], a contemporary source November, 1 death December, 6 January, 8 February, 17 March, 13 [edit] Spring April uncertain, between 1 and 5[6] (including Governor John Carver, not in above list) May or June, at least 1 (Mrs. Katherine (White) Carver, not in above list) Four deaths occurred in months unknown before the first Thanksgiving bringing the total deaths to 51. [edit] See also Plymouth Colony /wiki/L

Men John Allerton? Richard Britteridge, December 21 Robert Carter, after February 21 James Chilton, December 8 Richard Clarke John Crackstone Sr.? Thomas English? Moses Fletcher? Edward Fuller John Goodman - William Holbeck? John Langmore Edmund Margesson? Christopher Martin, January 8 William Mullins, February 21 Degory Priest, January 1 John Rigsdale Thomas Rogers Elias Story Edward Thompson, December 4 Edward Tilley John Tilley Thomas Tinker John Turner William White, February 21 Roger Wilder Thomas Williams Weedle The Beetle [edit] Women Mary (Norris) Allerton, February 25, wife of Isaac Allerton, reportedly in childbirth, baby was stillborn.[4] Dorothy (May) Bradford, December 7 Mrs. James Chilton Sarah Eaton Mrs. Edward Fuller Mary (Prower) Martin Alice Mullins April? Alice Rigsdale Ann (Cooper) Tilley Joan (Hurst) Tilley Mrs. Thomas Tinker Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, March 24 Alice Closford, October 24 [edit] Children William Butten, November 6 (died at sea, the only passenger to die during the journey) John Hooke (age 14) Ellen More (age 8) Jasper More (age 7), December 6 Mary More (age 6) Joseph Mullins April? Solomon Prower, December 24 son of Thomas Tinker son of John Turner another son of John Turner

Dorothy (May) Bradford,