Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 and 1999.

English soldier, the son of John Tarleton, a Liverpool merchant, and was born in Liverpool on the 21st of August 1754.

Having been successful in a skirmish at Tarrants House, and having taken part in the battle of Guilford in March 1781, he marched with Cornwallis into Virginia, and after affording much assistance to his commander-in-chief he was instructed to hold Gloucester. This post, however, was surrendered to the Americans with Yorktown in October 1781, and Tarleton returned to England on parole.

He died without issue at Leintwardine in Shropshire on the 25th of January 1833.

George Mason was born in Virginia, son of a wealthy planter.

He declined to serve, as he steadfastly avoided higher offices in his reluctant role as a Revolutionary statesman.

Many details in the approved Constitution, such as the mandatory origin of tax bills in the House, bore testimony to Mason's persistence.

“That all men are born equally free and independent

Mason lived with his family on a Fairfax County Plantation.

In 1776 he was Fairfax County’s representative to the Virginia Convention and was appointed to the committee to draft a “Declaration of Rights” and a constitution to allow Virginia to act as an independent political body.

George Washington was the President while securing America’s independence and is generally accepted as one of the most important Presidents in the history of our country.

After 20 years, in 1774, of work and shrewd investment, Washington was asked to be a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congress’, though he did not support independence until 1776.

Washington's mother was protective and demanding, keeping him from joining the British navy as Lawrence wanted.

He was good at math which suited his chosen profession of surveying.

When George was eleven years old, Augustine died, leaving most of his property to George's older half brothers.

In 1746 Lawrence proposed that George Washington join the British navy.

Although George was excited at the idea of a military career, his mother refused her consent,

The stories of George Washington's youth are well documented. The stories of Mary Washington's life are less so

The relationship between mother and son is one that is disputed, but Washington did care for his mother in her later years. In 1772, George Washington purchased the house in Fredericksburg and moved his mother there to be closer to her daughter Betty.

Mary Ball Washington was the second wife of Augustine Washington, and George was her first child.

Not much is known about her life at this time, but we know that she could read and write, and that she was an avid horsewoman.

Although the title was not coined until after her death

was the wife of George William Fairfax

was apparently in love with at the time of his marriage to

good friend of George Washington

was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety.

he Puritans felt that the Anglican Church was still too close to Catholicism and needed to be reformed further.