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81 famous people found
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John Fitch
American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer
1743 - 1798 -
James Gadsden
American diplomat, soldier and businessman
1788 - 1858 -
Samuel Sewall
Judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials
1652 - 1730 -
Abraham J. Hasbrouck
United States Representative from New York and a slaveholder
1773 - 1845 -
David Sears
Pprominent 19th-century Boston philanthropist, merchant, real estate developer, and landowner
1787 - 1871 -
Nathaniel Rochester
American Revolutionary War soldier, and land speculator
1752 - 1831 -
Francis Baring
English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets
1740 - 1810 -
Charity BRYANT
American business owner and writer
1777 - 1851 -
Richard Bland
American planter and statesman
1710 - 1776 -
Stephen WHITNEY
American merchant
1776 - 1860 -
Philemon WRIGHT
American farmer, lumberman and entrepreneur who founded the first permanent settlement in the National Capital Region of Canada
1760 - 1839 -
Nathan APPLETON
American merchant and politician and a member of "The Boston Associates"
1779 - 1861 -
Jim BOWIE
American pioneer, slave trader and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution
1796 - 1836 -
Matthias W. BALDWIN
American inventor and machinery manufacturer
1795 - 1866 -
Benjamin HANKS
American goldsmith, instrument maker, clockmaker, bellfounder, and foundry owner
1755 - 1824 -
Lucien FONTENELLE
Prominent American fur trader
1800 - 1839 -
Peter MANIGAULT
Charleston, South Carolina attorney, plantation owner, slave owner and colonial legislator
1731 - 1773 -
Augustine WARNER SR.
English-born Virginia planter and politician
1610 - 1674 -
Augustine WARNER JR.
Virginia politician, planter, and landowner
1642 - 1681 -
Thomas LYNCH
American planter and statesman
1727 - 1776