Introduction
to Founding Father Analysis
Chart 8. Barton’s Founding Fathers in More Light (revisited)
A.
Founding Era – 1760-1805 – Founders – Men 16 Years Old+ in 1776
B.
Founding Era – 1760-1805 – Men Born 1761+ & Before 1774: 16 Years Old+ by
1789
C.
Founding Era – 1760-1805 – Born 1775, Not Founders But Children at Founding,
Younger than 16 Years Old by 1789
D.
Founding Era – 1760-1805 – 16 Years Old & Older in 1776 – But NOT Founders,
NOT New American Residents
E. Outside
Founding Era – Born Before 1760
F. Outside
Founding Era – Born After 1773, Children, Less Than 16 Years in
1789
G.
Clergymen = 48 in Barton
H. Tim
LaHaye’s 54 Founding Fathers
I. 33
Freemason Generals in Continental Army
I. 85 More
Freemason Founding Fathers Not in Barton or LeHaye
The following is an
analysis of David Barton’s 268 biographic sketches of selected individuals
referenced in his Original Intent. We also focus upon chronological
order and chronological issues for more light. With respect to David Barton’s entire thesis, his elimination of Freemasonry is a
critical failure. Furthermore, the church membership at least, to say nothing
of church attendance (and Barton says nothing of church attendance), for Barton
to have substantiated his thesis he should have been more attentive to a simple
majority of church-going persons and a good number of ministers who were also
Founding Fathers. Yet, we find that 27 ministers of 48 are not Founding Fathers
at all.
Our primary reference
for Freemasonry affiliation came from a comparison with William R. Denslow’s magnum opus 10,000 Famous Freemasons. A few times, Denslow noted doubts about a man’s
membership, and Denslow cross-referenced many times.
To read the chart and
following gradations, note that Barton listed the years 1740-1850 as the
“lifespan of the Founders” and the years 1760-1805 as the “Founding Era.” The terms theologian and minister have
been changed to Clergyman for consistency, with theologian left
to retain it’s unique significance. OI = David Barton’s Original Intent.
Here is an astounding
revelation after a closer look at David Barton’s extensive research.
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Founding Era 1760-1805 & 268 Important Bio’s
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Only 188 of 268 are Founding Fathers—85 of 268 attorneys
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164 of
268 Founding 1776 Fathers—69 of 164 are attorneys
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24 of 268 Founding 1789 Fathers—16 of 24 are attorneys
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10 of 268
Founding Children, <16 by 1789
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76 Freemasons in Barton’s Founders
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76 of 188
Founders Freemasons, 40%
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69 of 164 1776 Founders Freemasons, 42%
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8 of 24 1789 Founders Freemasons, 33%
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48 Clergymen in Barton’s 268
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26
Founding Fathers Clergy
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27 >16 Years @ 1776—1 of 27 Not Founding Father
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21 Not Founding Fathers – 1 lived in 10th Century
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5 of 21
born before Columbus sailed – 10 died before 1700
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15 died before 1776 – 5 of 21
<16 @ 1789, 2 of 21 born after 1800
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Outside Founding Era 1760-1805
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80 of 268, 30% Not Founders
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37 of 268 Not Founders, Not Born 1760
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38 of 268 Not Founders, Born After 1773
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5 of 268 Not Founders, Not Resident
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Chart 8. Barton’s Founding Fathers in More Light (revisited)
Those are numbers that
have a bearing upon David Barton’s and much of the Religious Right’s concern over original
intent of our beloved U.S. Constitution. Moreover, we inserted Tim LeHaye’s list of 54 as well as 33 Freemason Founding
Generals and 85 other Freemason Founding Fathers with short bio’s, and we could
have listed hundreds. We all know that there were more, but not many more
truly significant leaders. The numbers above cannot be seen as closed or truly
representative, just representative of the leaders: the leaders is a finite number.
Surely, there are many more hundreds who were Founding Fathers of some
sort, and many who were and were not Freemasons. The point is with respect and
disrespect to David Barton’s own shuffling. Look, and look close at Barton and his
own rationale. The 268 is his own deduction, and from that we see 76 or 40% who
were Freemasons. In Barton’s many books—all of them together—we do not even
know if 2% of any of the Founding Fathers were Baptist or anything else. We do
not know of any significant church attendance at all. What do we know?
We know that Freemasonry more than any other single institution played a role.
All of that—by Barton’s own rationale—overshadows, even occults his own ideas
of an evangelical original intent. Superlatives fail us here—except
perhaps malignance in Barton’s hiding of that.
In Tim LaHaye, the top two—George Washington and Benjamin
Franklin—were the most influential Founding Fathers and among
the most active Freemasons; after these two, the next five “most-influencing
Founding Fathers” were
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Mason 1751-1836, James Madison
1752-1816, Gouverneur Morris
Mason 1721-1793, Roger Sherman
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Mason 1757-1804, Alexander
Hamilton
1763-1816, George Mason
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Five out of LeHaye’s top seven were Freemasons, or
71%—remarkable. Then LeHaye gives three more lists: two lists of 16 and one of
15—for 47—that gives us 54 significant Founding Fathers in LaHaye (47 + 5 + 2 =
54). Of the 54, 14 or 26% are unique to LaHaye (u=unique), and 19 of the 54
were Freemasons, for 35%; that means of the 54 Founding Fathers in LeHaye, 24
or 44% were Freemasons. See the list below.
164 with 69 Freemasons, or 42% — Please note that I added bio
info from Denslow to complement Barton’s info (editing some of Barton’s too),
but got tired somewhere about halfway through and stopped adding lodge numbers,
etc.; there is so much more.
Mason 1706-1790, Benjamin Franklin, one of the leading
Founding Fathers by everyone’s acclamation, author, scientist, first president
of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Abolition of Slavery, one of only six
who signed both Declaration and Constitution; in 1727, he organized the Leather
Apron Club as a secret society in Philadelphia (non-Masonic), received his
degrees in 1731 in St. John’s Lodge in Philadelphia, and served every post, and
was then appointed provincial grand master by Thomas Oxnard of Boston on June
10, 1749, deposed in 1750 and appointed deputy grand master, was appointed to a
committee for building a Free-Mason’s Lodge in Philadelphia and took a
prominent part in the dedication of the first Masonic building in American on
June 24, 1755; he printed Anderson’s Constitutions which was the first Masonic
book printed in America in 1734; he visited France, assisted in the initiation
of Voltaire in 1778 into the Lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris, and
on 11-28-1778 officiated at the Masonic funeral held by that Lodge for
Voltaire. On 7-7-1782 he was a member of the Respectable Lodge de Saint Jean de
Jerusalem and in 1785 he
was elected honorary member of the Loge des Bon Amis of Rouen, France.
1707-1785, Stephen Hopkins, congressman, founder
of library in Providence, signer of Declaration
1710-1785, Rev.
Jonathan Trumbull, Clergyman, businessman, judge, congressman, minister
church in Colshester, CT, Governor Connecticut 1769-1784, only Colonial
Governor who served from start to finish of American Revolution, “probably contributed
more to the Revolution in the way of arms, munitions, supplies, men, etc., than
any other Governor; was a close counsel of General Washington throughout the
War” (OI, 427)
1711-1779, Eleazer Wheelock, Clergyman, popular preacher in Great Awakening,
educated Indians, est. Dartmouth 1770 and remained president until death
1711-1779, John Hart, congressman, signer of Declaration
1715-1757, Rev. Aaron Burr, Clergyman, Presbyterian and college president, called
to First Church of Newark, involved in revivals of Great Awakening 1746
1715-1766, Rev. Samuel Farley, Clergyman, taught Benjamin Rush, president of
Princeton 1761-1766
Mason
1716-1778, Phillip Livingston, merchant, congressman,
signed Declaration, president of the New York Provincial Convention
1720-1766, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman, pastor of West Church, Boston 1747,
preached Christianity on Scriptures and not Calvinism, defender of civil
liberty, including on sermon after repeal of Stamp Act titled The Snare
Broken 1766, well thought of by patriots including John Adams
Mason
1721-1793, Roger Sherman, farmer, cobbler, JP,
congressman, helped with introduction of two houses of congress, signed
Declaration and Constitution (1 of 6), only founder to sign Declaration,
Articles of Association, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution – ONLY signed
all 4
Mason
1722-1803, Samuel Adams, known “Firebrand of Revolution”
and “Father of the American Revolution” (OI, 374), signer on Declaration; Mason no record, purported to be made
one at St. John’s Lodge, Boston, MA
1723-1761, Rev. Samuel Davies, Clergyman, influential in Great Awakening,
Presbyterian, President of Princeton after friend, Jonathan Edwards
1723-1790, William Livingston, attorney, soldier, Brigadier General, signed
Constitution, signer of Declaration
1723-1794, John Whitherspoon, Clergyman, congressman, Presbyterian,
Calvinist churchman, President of Princeton 1768-1776, signed Declaration,
author of theological work
1724-1777, John Morton, congressman, land surveyor, JP, signed Declaration,
believed that his “signing of the Declaration of Independence to
have been the most glorious service that I ever rendered my country” (OI, 409)
Mason
1724-1790, Rev. Lyman Hall, Clergyman, physician,
congressman, signer of Declaration
Mason
1724-1792, Henry Laurens, merchant, congressman, member
of the American Philosophical Society 1772-1792, help negotiate peace with
Great Britain and signer of Treaty of Paris 1782
1725-1776, Samuel Ward, farmer, congressman, founder and trustee of Rhode Island
College now Brown 1764-1776, helped secure George Washington as
commander-in-chief
Mason
1725-1783, James Otis, attorney, congressman, soldier,
author, recognized in England as chief of “the rebellious spirit” (OI, 410),
mentor of Samuel Adams and Sons of Liberty 1761-1769, “was considered the acknowledged
political leader of Massachusetts Bay” (OI, 410), mercifully struck by
lightening ending his tormenting last days
1725-1783, Rev. Samuel Cooper, Clergyman, pastor of puritan Brattle Square Church
in Boston 1747, declined presidency of Harvard 1774, British often ordered his
arrest for advocating American Independence, “close friend of Adams, Franklin,
and other patriots” (OI, 385)
1725-1792, George Mason, congressman, drafted Virginia’s first constitution with
Declaration of Rights from which Jefferson drew the Declaration, refused to
sign because it did not abolish slavery, known as the “Father of the Bill of
Rights” (OI, 407)
1726-1790, James Bowdoin, early delegate
1726-1795, William Prescott, congressman, farmer, soldier, Colonel of Minute Men,
said, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” 1775 (OI, 415)
Mason
1726-1796, Oliver Wolcott, congressman, soldier, Major
General militia, signed Declaration, Governor Connecticut 1796-1797, both
father and son was also Governor of Connecticut
1726-1798, Lewis Morris, jurist, congressman, signed Declaration, first board of
regents of Univ. of New York
1726-1806, George Wythe, attorney, Mayor of Williamsburg, congressman, Professor of
Law at College of William and Mary first chair of law in a college in America
1779-1790
Mason
1727-1795, Daniel Roberdeau, merchant, congressman,
manager of Pennsylvania Hospital 1756-1758, 1766-1776, Warden of Philadelphia
1756-1761, Brigadier General 1776, volunteered in Congress to establish mine
1778 and build Fort Reberdeau to protect
1727-1819, William Samuel Johnson,
congressman, first president of Columbia College 1787-1800, helped organize
Protestant Episcopal Church in America
Mason 1727-1820,
William Ellery, attorney, sailor, signer of Declaration, active in
abolishing slavery, congressman, record of being made a Mason in St. John’s
Lodge, Boston 10-12-1748, on rolls of St. John Lodge No. 4, Hartford, CT, 2-8-1763.
Mason
1728-1784, Caesar Rodney, congressman, soldier, Capt. of
Kent County Militia 1756 Delaware, signed Declaration, rode 80 miles on horseback
to vote for Independence just in time, Major General 1777, president of
Delaware 1778-1782
1728-1814, Mercy Otis Warren, author,
historian, sister of James Warren, author if A History of the Rise,
Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution 1805
Mason 1729-1789,
Richard Caswell, attorney, Major-General in state militia, Governor of
North Carolina, member of Continental Congress, member of St. John’s Lodge No.
3, New Bern, NC, deputy grand master of North
Carolina on Dec. 11, 1787, and grand master Nov. 18, 1788.
Mason
1729-1795, Josiah Bartlett, physician, jurist, President
(Governor) of New Hampshire 1790-1794, signed Declaration; Mason not known but letter to son Ezra said, “I attended a Mason
meeting last night, and as soon as You can I wish you would join the Masons.”
Mason
1730-1781, Richard Stockton, attorney, congressman,
tutored Elias Boudinot, Joseph Reed, recruited Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon for
president of Princeton 1768, Supreme Court of New Jersey 1774-1776, Chief
Justice 1776, signed Declaration
Mason
1730-1794, Baron Frederick William Augustus von Steubun, soldier in Pressian Army, sent
by Benjamin Franklin to serve American Continental Army under Washington 1777,
drilled troops at Valley Forge 1777-1778
1730-1796, Daniel Carroll, signed Constitution, helped with Bill of Rights
1731-1782, Charles Lee, soldier, Major-General in Continental Army, traitor helped
British draw up plan to defeat America
Mason
1731-1796, Samuel Huntington, attorney, congressman
1731-1811, William Williams, congressman, soldier, judge, signed Declaration
Mason 1731-1814,
Rev. Robert Treat Paine, Clergyman,
attorney, congressman, judge of Massachusetts Supreme Court
Mason 1732-1794,
Richard Henry Lee, congressman,
educated in England, made the resolution that led to the Declaration,
proposing, “these States are of a right and ought to be free and independent
States” (OI, 403), signed Declaration, authored first National Thanksgiving Day
Proclamation issued by Congress 1777, helped frame Bill of Rights
Mason
1732-1799, George Washington, Commander-in-Chief and
first U.S. President 1789 and known as the Father of His Country
1732-1802, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, daughter of Colonel John
Dandridge, after husband Daniel Parke Custis died, was one of the wealthiest in
Virginia, and married George Washington in 1759
Mason 1732-1808,
John Dickinson, attorney, soldier, Brigadier-General Pennsylvania
Militia 1775-1777, know as the “Penman of the Revolution,” president of both
Delaware and Pennsylvania and signed Constitution, but refused to sign
Declaration thinking it premature, made Brigadier General of Delaware militia,
fifth president of Delaware in 1781 and resigned in 1782 to become president of
Pennsylvania; made and raised a master Mason in Lodge No. 18, Dover, Delaware under Pennsylvania charter
Mason 1732-1810,
William Cushing, attorney, member of convention that formed the first state
constitution of Massachusetts, appointed as original Chief Justice of Superior
Court of MA 1777, first Chief Justice of the state under state constitution in
1780, and then First Chief Justice
1789 of Supreme Court by George Washington and administered oath to Washington
to his 2nd term 1793; member of St. Andrew’s Lodge, Boston, MA
1733-1797, James Duane, attorney, district judge by Pres. George Washington
1789-1794
1733-1798, George Read, attorney, congressman, signed Declaration and Constitution
(only 1 of 6), helped frame Bill of Rights, Chief Justice Delaware 1793-1798
1733-1804, Rev. Joseph Priestly, Clergyman, scientist, knew several languages, for
French Revolution, moved to America
1733-1806, Richard Law, attorney, congressman, U.S. District Judge by George
Washington, mayor of New London
Mason
1733-1810, Benjamin Lincoln, farmer, soldier, congressman,
Major-General, handed General Cornwallis’ sword at his surrender at Battle of
Yorktown, member of Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and
Others 1794-1810
1733-1816, Samuel Johnson, attorney, congressman, helped frame Bill of Rights, first
trustee of Univ. of North Carolina
1734-1802, Robert Aitken, publisher Pennsylvania Magazine
1734-1808, Peter Sylvester, attorney, congressman, county judge, regent for Univ. of
New York, helped Bill of Rights
1734-1811, Sephen Moylan, soldier, businessman, became General George Washington’s
aide, Brigadier General
Mason
1734-1817, Thomas McKean, attorney, congressman, signed
Declaration, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, governor of
Delaware 1777 and Pennsylvania 1799-1808
1734-1820, Daniel Boone, frontiersman, hunter, served with George Washington,
1735-1803, James Beattie, author, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal
College, author of Nature and Immutability of Truth refuting David
Hume’s work, which “pleased numerous of the Founding Fathers, particularly
Benjamin Rush (1770)” (OI, 377).
Mason
1735-1818, Paul Revere, merchant, soldier, made famous midnight ride to warn
patriots in Lexington and Concord of British attack and for Hancock and Adams
to flee, made first official seal for the Colonies, made state seal for
Massachusetts, made gunpowder, copper balls, first metal plating for frigates,
the old ironsides, wore uniforms of the Revolution every day until his death
Mason
1735-1826, John Adams, attorney, 2nd U.S. President; Mason St. John’s No. 1, Portsmouth, NH
Mason
1736-1799, Patrick Henry, attorney, Secretary of State by
George Washington, congressman, probably a Freemason.
1736-1800, Benjamin Huntington, attorney, congressman, helped with Bill of Rights
Mason
1737-1789, Ethan Allen, soldier, author, Colonel by
George Washington, Major-General; Mason thought
to have received Windsor, VT, July 7, 1777, but may not, while brother was a
member of Vermont Lodge No. 1
1737-1789, Silas Deane, attorney, minister to France, lost faith in America and
accused of being a traitor for letters seeking reconciliation with England
Mason
1737-1791, Francis Hopkinson, attorney, congressman, first
president of American Philosophical Society 1769, “author of the first purely
American hymn book, setting the Psalms to music” (OI, 395)
Mason
1737-1793, John Hancock, soldier, first signer of Declaration, Major-General of
Massachusetts Militia
1737-1798, Jacob Duché, Clergyman, Anglican, authored political sermons,
asked for recall of Declaration, branded traitor, fled to Britain, later
allowed to return
1737-1805, John Pickering, attorney, congressman, appointed U.S. Judge by George
Washington
Mason
1737-1809, Thomas Paine, soldier, congressman, published Common
Sense (1776), most widely read call for independence, Rights of Man (1787),
and deistic Age of Reason which brought much criticism
1737-1832, Charles Carroll, farmer, signed Declaration, helped with Bill of Rights,
longest lived of signers of Declaration
Mason
1738-1789, Thomas Nelson, Jr., congressman, soldier,
signed Declaration, commander-in-chief of State forces in Virginia 1777-1781,
Governor of Virginia 1781 shortly and resigned
1738-1796, Nathaniel Gorham, merchant, congressman, signed Constitution
1738-1816, Samuel Holton, physician, congressman
Mason
1738-1824, Rufus Putnam, congressman, soldier, est.
first settlement in Northwest Territory, Marietta, OH, appointed Judge in NW
Territory by George Washington, known as Father of Ohio
1739-1800, John Rutledge, attorney, congressman, educated by clergyman father,
signed Constitution, Supreme Court by George Washington 1789-1791, Chief
Justice South Carolina, suffered periods of insanity ended his career
Mason 1739-1812,
George Clinton, sailor, soldier, attorney, president of ratification
convention of the Constitution, known as “Father of New York” (OI, 383), VP of
U.S. 1805-1812, Brigadier General of American Revolution 1777, member of Warren
Lodge No. 17, NYC, served as master 1800, represented lodge
at Grand Steward’s Lodge on May 28, 1800, referred to as Past Master and
honorary member of Courtland Lodge No. 34; many lodges were chartered as Clinton in
New York
1740-1799, William Paca, attorney, congressman, signed Declaration, Governor of Maryland
1782-1785, appointed U.S. Judge by Pres. George Washington 1789-1799
1740-1821, Elias Boudinot, attorney, author, converted to Christianity during Great
Awakening, signer of Declaration, first president of American Bible Society
1816-21, member New Jersey Bible Society 1818, published “A Star in the West
(1816) in which he attempted to prove that the American Indians were the
ten lost tribes of Israel” (OI, 379)
Mason
1741-1785, Joseph Reed, attorney, congressman, soldier,
Washington’s military secretary, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, said British
offered
Mason
1741-1801, Benedict Arnold, soldier, druggist, bookseller;
hero at Battle of Saratoga, turned traitor in plan to turn over West Point to
British; Mason Hiram Lodge No. 1,
New Haven CT; but May 16, 1781, Solomon Lodge No. 1, Poughkeepsie, NY, took him off for being a traitor
1741-1811, Samuel Chase, attorney, signed Declaration, appointed to Supreme Court by
George Washington
1741-1811, Thomas FitzSimons, soldier, congressman, helped with Bill of Rights,
founder of insurance company, trustee Univ. of Pennsylvania
Mason
1741-1819, John Langdon, congressman, helped with Bill of Rights, signed
Constitution
1741-1821, William Farley, author, congressman
1742-1786, Nathanael Green, soldier, tutored in
Latin and geometry, was Quaker until expelled, Brigadier-, Major-, than
Quarter-Master General
Mason
1742-1790, William Hooper, attorney,
signer of Declaration, congressman
Mason
1742-1798, James Wilson, attorney,
educator, congressman, signed Declaration and Constitution (1 of 6), Supreme
Court by George Washington 1789-1798, first Professor of Law in the College of
Philadelphia 1790 and Univ. of Pennsylvania 1791, with Thomas McKean
co-authored America’s first commentaries on Constitution 1792
Mason
1742-1812, Jonathan Bayard Smith,
congressman, soldier, trustee Princeton and Univ. of Pennsylvania, member
American Philosophical Society
1743-1787, Thomas Stone, attorney, congressman,
initially opposed Declaration because he hated war, but signed Declaration,
helped craft Articles of Confederation 1778,
1743-1802, John Lowell, attorney, soldier,
congressman, U.S. Federal Judge 1789-1802
1743-1811, Francis Dana, attorney, a “Son of
Liberty” (OI, 384), member of Society for Propagating of the Gospel Among
Indians and others 1787-1810
Mason?
1743-1826, Thomas Jefferson,
attorney, congressman, principle author of Declaration of Independence, author of Statute of Virginia for
Religious Freedom, 3rd U.S. President, helped found Univ. of Virginia 1819,
known as Father of Univ. of Virginia
1744-1808, James Sullivan, attorney, congressman,
helped with 11th amendment, member of Society for Propagating the Gospel Among
the Indians and Others, principal founder of Massachusetts Historical Society
Mason
1744-1814, Elbridge Gerry, merchant,
congressman, signer of Declaration
1744-1818, Abigail
Adams, wife of John Adams
1744-1826, Luther
Martin, attorney, congressman, refused to sign Constitution because it did not
end slavery
1744-1826, Rev. James Hall, Clergyman, soldier,
active in American Bible Society
Mason
1745-1790, David Brearly, attorney, arrested
for treason by Great Britain, Chief Justice Supreme Court of New Jersey 1779,
one of compiles of Episcopal Prayer book 1786; Mason first Grand Master of Masons of New Jersey from 1986 until
death
1745-1799, William Dawes, merchant, tanner, one of
famous midnight riders who road with Paul Revere 1775, who warned John Hancock
and John Adams in time to save them
Mason
1745-1803, John Barry, sailor,
soldier; Mason Lodge #2,
Philadelphia, PA, 10-12-1795
Mason
1745-1806, William Paterson,
attorney, congressman, founded literary society called Well-Meaning Society,
signed Constitution, helped with Bill of Rights, appointed to Supreme Court by
G. Washington 1793-1806
Mason 1745-1807,
Oliver Ellsworth, congressman, to
Supreme Court by George Washington, became Chief Justice, while a student at
Princeton became charter member of St. John’s Lodge at Princeton, NJ, 12-27-1765, studied theology then
went into law, member of Constitutional Convention 1787, “it was through his
insistence that the words ‘national government’ were removed from the draft and
‘government of the United States’ substituted.”
Mason
1745-1813, Benjamin Rush, physician,
educator, congressman, signed Declaration, Surgeon General of Continental Army
1777-1778, on of principal co-authors of Pennsylvania constitution 1789-1790,
Treasurer of U.S. Mint under Pres. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James
Madison, founder of Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
1774, known as “Father of American Medicine” (OI, 419)
1745-1815, Richard Bassett, attorney, congressman
1745-1819, Caleb Strong, attorney, congressman, signed Constitution, VP American
Bible Society
1745-1823, John Treadwell, attorney, congressman, Lt. Gov. Connecticut 1798-1809,
Governor 1809-1811
Mason
1745-1829, John Jay, attorney, congressman, author first manual on military
discipline 1777, with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison author of Federalist
Papers, first Chief Justice of Supreme Court by George Washington, VP of
American Bible Society 1816-1821 and president 1816-1821, member of American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
1745-1829, Timothy Pickering, attorney, soldier,
congressman, Postmaster General under President George Washington, Secretary of
State under Pres. John Adams
1746-1788, William Churchill Houston, Professor of
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Princeton 1771, soldier, congressman
1746-1799, Increase Sumner, attorney, educator,
congressman, Governor of Massachusetts 1797-1799, sworn in for third term on
death bed
Mason
1746-1807, Rev. John Peter Gabriel
Muhlenberg, Clergyman, soldier, congressman, Lutheran pasturing in
Woodstock, VA, Major-General, helped frame Bill of Rights
1746-1825, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
attorney, congressman, Brigadier General, signed Constitution, a founder of
South Carolina College 1801, first president of Charleston Bible Society
1810-1825, VP of American Bible Society 1816-1825
Mason
1747-1812, Gunning Bedford, Jr., attorney,
soldier, appointed by U.S. Federal Judge by President George Washington; Mason Washington Lodge No. 14 raised
Sept. 11, 1782 (now Delaware Lodge No. 1) and also served as master of the lodge
Mason
1748-1779, Count & General Casimir
Pulaski, soldier, Brigadier General of Calvary, helped save Charleston,
corner stone of grave in Savannah laid by Lafayette 1824
1748-1782, Martha Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson, her second husband, died early
after six children
1748-1808, Jonathan Mitchell Sewell, attorney,
poet, orator, authored ballad “War and Washington” which became popular in
Continental Army 1776, authored 3 odes sung to President Washington when he
visited Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1789, authored “A Verification of President
Washington’s Excellent Farewell Address” 1798, pronounced a eulogy after
Washington’s death in December 1799
1748-1828, William Few, attorney, original trustee
for Univ. of Georgia 1785, inspector of state prisons, president of Manhattan
Bank 1804-1814
1749-1800, William Blount, congressman,
conspirator to use British, Indians, and frontiersmen to take Florida and
Louisiana from Spain in 1797, later became president of Tennessee
1749-1806, Rev. Matthias Burnet, Clergyman,
pastor of Congregational church in Norwalk, CT
1749-1815, David Ramsey, congressman, physician,
author, History of the Revolution South Carolina 1785, History of the
American Revolution 1789, Life of Washington 1807, History of the
United States published posthumously 1816-1817
1749-1822, Jared Ingersoll, congressman, judge
Mason
1750-1801, Rev. Frederick Augustus
Conrad Muhlenberg, Clergyman, pastor of Christ German Lutheran
congregation in New York 1773-1776, original speaker of U.S. House of
Representatives 1789-1797 where he helped frame Bill of Rights
Mason
1750-1818, Thomas Posey,
congressman, soldier, Brigadier General, VP American Bible Society
1750-1825, William Gray, merchant, soldier,
congressman, VP American Bible Society
1750-1826, Isaac Shelby, congressman, soldier,
moved a lot, helped General Andrew Jackson with treaty with Chickasaw Indians,
VP American Bible Society
1750-1827, William Phillips, congressman, member
of several Gospel societies, including VP for American Bible Society 1820-1827
Mason
1750-1831, Stephen Girard, sailor,
underwrote 3 million dollars to capitalize State Bank of United States, became
“sheet anchor” of government credit
1751-1799, James Iredell, attorney, appointed by
George Washington to Supreme Court 1790-1799
Mason
1751-1824, Rev. William Rogers, Clergyman,
educator, chaplain of
Pennsylvania rifle regiment, militia, and legislature, Professor of Oratory and
English Literature at College of Philadelphia 1789-1792, VP of Religious
Historical Society of Philadelphia 1819
Mason 1751-1829,
Henry Dearborn, physician, soldier,
congressman, at Valley Forge, Major-General, Secretary of War under Thomas
Jefferson, became a member on March 3, 1774, but was not made a master Mason until
April 7, 1777 (a lot was happening between those years), was a visitor at
American Union Lodge of CT, April 7, 1779, and several of his sons
were named after his Mason friends
Mason
1751-1836, James Madison,
congressman, signed Constitution, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay author
of the Federalist Papers, 2 terms as U.S. President 1809-1817
Mason
1752-1810, Jacob Broom, farmer,
businessman, prepared maps for General George Washington prior to Battle of
Brandywine 1777, drew the map for Washington, signed Constitution, Christian
Ferry Lodge No. 14, and was secretary and treasurer and
junior warden
1752-1816, Gouverneur Morris, attorney,
congressman, soldier, signer of Constitution, most active of Constitutional
Convention speaking 173 times known as “the penman of the Constitution” (OI,
409)
Mason
1752-1825, John Brooks, physician,
soldier, president of Middlesex County Bible Society, Governor of Massachusetts 1816,
re-elected 7 years in a row, friend of Washington, Washington Lodge No. 10
1752-1830, John Davenport, attorney, soldier,
congressman
1752-1844, Gabiel Duvall, attorney, soldier,
Comptroller under Pres. Thomas Jefferson, to Supreme Court by Pres. James
Madison 1811-1835
Mason
1753-1813, Edmund Randolph,
attorney, congressman, voice in Bill of Rights, first Attorney General of U.S.
by Pres. George Washington, Secretary of State under Pres. George Washington
Mason
1753-1816, James McHenry, physician,
soldier, congressman, military secretary to George Washington, Secretary of War
under Pres. George Washington and John Adams, founder and president of
Baltimore Bible Society 1813
1753-1822, William Jones, merchant, soldier,
congressman, Governor Rhode Island 1811-1817, president of Rhode Island Bible
Society, VP American Bible Society
Mason
1753-1823, Joseph Bloomfield,
attorney, educated at Rev. Enoch Green’s Classical Academy, Captain in New
Jersey, personally carried Declaration of Independence to
Fort Stanwix in 1776, member of New Jersey Bible Society, made
Brigadier-General by President James Madison; Mason Bristol Lodge No. 25, Bristol, PA, served as master 1782;
affiliated with Trenton Lodge No. 5, Trenton, NJ, in 1790, grand master of
the Grand Lodge of New Jersey 1789-80
1753-1834, Jonas Galusha, soldier, Governor of
Vermont, member of Baptist Church, VP American Bible Society
Mason
1754-1807, Abraham Baldwin, Minister,
Professor of Divinity at Yale, chaplain in
Revolutionary Army 1777-83, “Father of University of Georgia” (OI, 375) Affiliate of American Revolutionary
Lodge
Mason
1754-1812, Joel Barlow, Minister,
author, poet, epic poem The Vision of Columbus 1807; President of Bank
of Washington; Mason St. John’s
Lodge No. 4, Hartford, CT, “admitted” probably affiliate, Jan.
9, 1788
1754-1837, John Hamilton, soldier, Major-General,
congressman
1754-1841, Joseph Nourse, soldier, congressman, VP
American Bible Society
1755-1795, William Gradford, Theologian, attorney,
soldier, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, made U.S. Attorney by President
George Washington in 1794
Mason
1755-1827, Rufus King, attorney,
soldier, congressman, helped with Bill of Rights, minister to Great Britain by
Pres. George Washington and later by Pres. John Quincy Adams, manager of
American Bible Society
Mason
1755-1835, John Marshall, attorney,
soldier, congressman, Secretary of State under Pres. John Adams, appointed
Chief Justice to Supreme Court by Pres. John Adams, his unorthodox ruling in
1803 Marbury v. Madison made him principal founder of judicial
review, VP American Bible Society, officer of American Sunday School Union
Mason
1756-1818, Henry Lee, soldier,
became part of first Continental Dragoons 1777, Lt. Colonel, pronounces George
Washington as “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen” (OI, 403), father of Robert E. Lee
1756-1827, William Tilgham, congressman, loyalist,
appointed by Pres. John Adams as “midnight judge” (OI, 425), trustee Univ. of
Pennsylvania, Chief Justice Pennsylvania, VP American Bible Society, last ten
years of his life refused to wear any clothes not made in U.S.
1756-1831, Andrew Kirkpatrick, attorney, believer
in capital punishment and whipping post, VP New Jersey Bible Society 1810,
trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary, VP American Bible Society 1818-1831
Mason
1757-1804, Alexander Hamilton,
attorney, soldier, with James Madison and John Jay author of Federalist
Papers, aid to George Washington, Major-General, called Aaron Burr
dangerous and was killed by Burr in duel 1804
1757-1832, Robert Troup, attorney, congressman,
judge, helped found Geneva (now Hobart) College 1822, VP American Bible Society
Mason
1757-1834, Marquies de Lafayett,
Captain in French dragoons 1774, joined Continental Army in America 1777 as
Major-General without pay, longtime friend of George Washington, helped get
France’s support, played role in French Revolution, returned for final tour of America at
request of Pres. James Monroe 1824; was a lifetime member of the American
Sunday School Union, known as “Hero of two worlds” and “America’s Marquis” (OI,
401)
1758-1799, Rev. Chandler Robbins, Clergyman, pastor
of church in Plymouth 1759-1799, 1795 church had 2,500 members and was believed
to be largest in Massachusetts
Mason
1758-1802, John Vining, attorney,
congressman, helped Bill of Rights
Mason
1758-1802, Richard Dobbs Spaight,
congressman, soldier, signed Constitution
1758-1803, James T. Callender, wrote History of
the United States (1796), tried for sedition, accused Jefferson of
dishonesty, cowardice, and immorality
1758-1808, Fisher Ames, congressman, “chosen by
the Legislature of Massachusetts to deliver the oration at the death of George
Washington (1800)” and “considered one of America’s premier and most elegant
orators” (OI, 375) and declined presidency of Harvard
Mason
1758-1831, James Monroe, attorney,
soldier, congressman, Secretary of State under Pres. James Madison, 5th U.S.
President for 2 terms 1816-1925
1758-1843, Noah Webster, attorney, educator,
congressman, published Grammatical Institute of the English Language,
America’s first speller 1783-1785, began copyright campaign, visited with Ben
Franklin in Philadelphia for 10 months on Americanization of spelling and wrote
Dissertations on the English Language 1789 and The American
Dictionary of the English Language 1828, helped found Amherst College
1759-1823, Zephaniah Swift, attorney, congressman,
author, first American legal text System of Laws in Connecticut, member
of Abolition Society 1795, Chief Justice Connecticut 1806-1819,
1759-1842, Jeremiah Smith, attorney, soldier,
congressman, Chief Justice New Hampshire
Mason 1760-1824,
Jonathan Dayton, attorney, soldier, Captain in Continental Army 1776-83,
congressman, probably member of Temple Lodge No. 1, was present at Grand Lodge of New Jersey on
Dec. 30, 1788
1760-1831, Richard Allen, Clergyman, est.
Free African Society, 1787, helped “frame Bill of Rights” and ordained a deacon
in an independent Black Methodist church which he helped found (1799),
considered the founder and first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.)
donomination
24 with 8 Freemasons, for 33% — Men Born 1761+ & Before 1774:
16 Years Old+ by 1789
1761-1816, Samuel Dexter, attorney, congressman, member
of Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others
1762-1829, Bushrod Washington, attorney, soldier,
congressman, nephew of George Washington, signed Declaration, Supreme Court by
Pres. John Adams, executer of Washington’s will and inherited Mt. Vernon,
supervised John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, VP American Bible
Society, one of original VP’s of American Sunday School Union
1762-1830, William Giles, attorney, governor of
Virginia
1762-1848, Rev. Ashbel Green, Clergyman, soldier,
minister at Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia 1787-1812, chaplain of
Congress 1792-1800, wrote historic declaration against slavery, author of plan
for Princeton Theological Seminary
1763-1816, George Madison, soldier, congressman,
Governor of Kentucky, VP American Bible Society
1763-1837, Rev. Abiel Holmes, Clergyman,
Congregationalist, pastor of First Church in Cambridge 1792-1829, historian Annals
of America from the Discovery of Columbus in the Year 1492 to the Year 1826,
first extensive attempt at a history, father of Oliver Wendell Holmes
1763-1847, James Kent, attorney, congressman,
known as the “Father of American Jurisprudence” (OI, 399) along with Justice
Joseph Story
Mason 1761-1811,
William Eaton, soldier, Capt. in
U.S. Army, Consul to Tunis by President John Adams, Naval Agent to Barbary
States by President Thomas Jefferson, elected to Massachusetts legislature
1807, made a Freemason in North Star Lodge, Manchester, VT, 1792, wrote a eulogy for George
Washington, the last verse concludes, “Approving Heaven, with fostering hand,
Gave Masons triumph through this land; And firmly to secure our craft, From
bigot rage and envy’s shaft, Sent a Grand Master, Freedom’s son, The God-like patriot,
Washington!”
1765-1834, Charles Goldsborough, attorney,
congressman, VP American Bible Society 1819-1834
Mason
1765-1845, John Cotton Smith, attorney, congressman, Justice Supreme Court
Connecticut, first president of Connecticut Bible Society, VP American Bible
Society 1816-1831 and president 1831-1845, member American Board of Foreign
Missions 1826-1845
1766-1835, James Brown, attorney, diplomat,
ministry to France by President James Monroe (1823-29), VP American Bible
Society
Mason
1767-1845, Andrew Jackson, attorney,
congressman, 17th U.S. President
1767-1848, John Quincy Adams, attorney, known as
“Old Man Eloquent” for defense of antislavery cause and “the Hell-Hound of
Slavery” for intense opposition of slavery, 6th U.S. President (OI,
374)
1768-1843, Smith Thompson, attorney, congressman,
Chief Justice New York, Supreme Court by Pres. James Monroe and opposed Chief
Justice John Marshall on many issues, VP American Bible Society 1816-1830
Mason 1769-1828,
Dewitt Clinton, attorney, Governor
of N.Y., 1817-21, 1825-28; manager and VP American Bible Society (1816-27),
raised a master Mason in Holland Lodge No. 16 (now No. 8) Sept. 3, 1790, serving as master in 1793, then grand
master of Masons of the Grand Lodge of New York 1806-1819, knighted in the Holland Lodge May 17, 1792, served
grand commander of Knights Templar of NY from 1814-1828
1771-1834, William Johnson, attorney, appointed to
Supreme Court by Thomas Jefferson
1772-1820, James Berrill, Jr., attorney,
congressman
Mason
1772-1834, William Wirt, attorney,
author, congressman, U.S. Attorney by Pres. James Madison, prosecutor in Aaron
Burr conspiracy trail, best known as author of Sketches of the Life and
Character of Patrick Henry 1818, U.S. Attorney General by Pres. James
Monroe 1817-1829, was the presidential candidate for the Anti-Mason Party 1832,
early manager of American Sunday School Union, VP American Bible Society
Mason
1772-1849, Rev. David Lawrence Morril,
Clergyman, studied medicine, pastor of Presbyterian Church of Goffstown
1802-1811, VP American Bible Society 1821-1830, manager in American Sunday
School Union
1772-1853, Charles Caldwell, physician, author,
“first introducer of true medical science into the Mississippi Valley” (OI,
381)
Mason
1773-1827, Thomas Worthington,
congressman, Governor, VP American Bible Society 1816-1827
1773-1833, John Randolph of Roanoke, congressman,
diplomat, descendent of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, minister to Russian by Pres.
Andrew Jackson 1830
Mason
1774-1825, Daniel Tompkins,
congressman, judge, Secretary of State under Pres. James Madison 1814, VP under
Pres. James Monroe
1774-1844, Rev. Abner Kneeland, Clergyman,
Universalist, congressman, translated N.T., liberal,
pastor of Second Universalist Society 1827, expounded pantheism in Boston
Investigator 1831, tried and convicted of both libel and blasphemy
10 with 4 Freemasons, for 40% — Men Born 1775, Not Founders But
Children at Founding, Younger than 16 Years Old by 1789
1775-1850, circa, William Marbury, JP of D.C. under
President John Adams; sued James Madison in 1803 Marbury v. Madison which
jurists claim validated principle of judicial review
1776-1861, Walter
Jones, attorney, Brigadier-General
Mason
1777-1840, Felix Grundy, attorney,
congressman
1778-1844, William Gaston, attorney, congressman,
VP American Bible Society
1779-1843, Francis Scott Key, attorney, author of
National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner”, manager and VP for American Sunday
School Union from inception to his death 1791-1843, and VP of American Bible
Society
Mason
1779-1845, Joseph Story, attorney,
congressman, “grew up being strongly instructed in the principles of American
liberty since his father was one of ‘Indians’ in the Boston Tea Party (1773)”
(OI, 423), delivered eulogy on death of Washington 1800, Supreme Court by Pres.
James Madison 1811-1845, considered founder of Harvard Law School, Professor of
Law 1829-1845, “considered one of the most prolific judicial writers” (OI,
424), in 34 years on Supreme Court authored 286 with 269 being majority
opinions, with Chancellor James Kent considered “Father of American Jurisprudence”
(OI, 424)
1780-1842, Rev. William Ellery Channing, Clergyman,
Unitarian, opponent of slavery, Federal Street Church, Boston (1803-42),
opposed to Calvinism
Mason
1782-1852, Daniel Webster, attorney,
congressman, Secretary of State 1841-1843, 1850-1852
1787-1850, Rev. William Cogswell, Clergyman,
trustee of Andover Theological Seminary (1837)
Mason
1788-1857, Albion Parris, attorney,
congressman, Governor Maine 1821-1826, second comptroller of U.S. Treasury
1836-1850
5 — 16 Years Old & Older in 1776 – But NOT Founders, NOT New
American Residents
1711-1776, David Hume, Scottish philosopher,
soldier, many theories harshly criticized by founding Fathers, author of A
Treatise on Human Nature (1739)
1723-1780, Sir William Blackstone, attorney, famous
his 4-volume Commentaries on the Laws of England, “probably more
respected in America than in Great Britain and they became the premier legal
work used by the Founders” (OI, 377)
1735-1794, Beccaria (Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana),
attorney, educated Jesuit college at Parma, reformer of Italy’s judicial code
1738-1816, Rev. Bishop Richard Watson, Clergyman,
England, educator, scientist, author, Professor of Chemistry 1764, Professor of
the Regius Chair of Divinity 1771 Trinity College, answered Gibbon’s attack on
Christianity in Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776, was one
of two opponents Gibbons respected, authored Apology for the Bible against
Thomas Paine’s work 1796, opposed to war with America and denounced slave trade
1738-1820, King George III, King of Great Britain
during American Revolution
27
0095-0046, B.C., Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato), Roman
Philosopher, fought with Spartacus, became Tribune 67 B.C.
0350-0430, B.C., Plutarch, Greek philosopher who studied
under Aristotle and Plato, believed reason basis of all consciousness, “pure
intelligence of God” (OI, 414), author of Morals
1100-1155, Gratian, Clergyman, theologian, order
of St. Benedict, his Harmony of Conflicting Canons also known as Gratian’s
Decrees “was at the time thought by Popes and Bishops to be the most
important book on church law; is considered the ‘Father of Canon Law’” (OI,
392)
1320-1384, John Wycliffe, Clergyman, master
of Balliol College, England, “discovered that a relationship with God could be
obtained without help of a priest or sacraments” (OI, 432), taught Scriptures
were supreme authority, Rome pronounced him heretic, first person to try to
translate Bible into English, after death full translation of Latin Vulgate
into English 1388, followers became Lollards with John Huss spread Wycliffe
teachings to nearly a national religion, known as “The Morning Star of the
Reformation” (OI, 433) and Luther quoted from him a lot
1373-1415, John Huss, Clergyman, Catholic
Priest, Bohemian reformer, study of Scripture
1451-1506, Christopher Columbus, 1492 sailed to
America
1483-1546, Rev. Martin Luther, Clergyman,
responsible for the Protestant Reformation
1490-1536, William Tyndale, Clergyman,
theologian, trans. N.T., completed octavo edition 1526, author of Parable of
the Wicked Mammon and Obedience of a Christian Man two main
principles of the English Reformation and argued for supremacy of Scriptures
1533-1592, Michel de Montaigne, attorney,
congressman, in France
1550-1650, circa, Puritans, sought strict religious life,
purify Church of England
1552-1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, England, sailor,
explorer, given 40,000 acres in Ireland, first settlers on Roanoke Island 1585,
of second trip, Virginia Dare was born, becoming first English child born on
American continent, eventually est. Jamestown, first permanent est. on
continent
1553-1600, Rev. Richard Hooker, Clergyman,
theologian, political philosopher, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity and
considered the “Father of Anglicanism” (OI, 395)
1579-1633, Father Andrew White, Clergyman, English
mission field, exiled to France, entered Society of Jesus (1605-1609),
Professor of Theology, wrote famous Declaration Coloniae which provided
purposes of colonies and terms of settlers, known as “The Apostle of Maryland”
(OI, 430)
1583-1645, Hugo Grotius, Clergyman,
attorney, one of the founders of international law, with publication of On
the Law of War and Peace 1625
1588-1649, John Winthrop, attorney, congressman,
“first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony because he wanted to establish a
Bible Commonwealth free from the ‘corruption’ of the Church of England”
1629-1634, 1637-1640, 1642-1644, 1646-1649, (OI, 431), est. first Church in
Boston, wrote History of New England
1603-1684, Roger Williams, Clergyman, emigrated to Purity Colony 1624,
non-conformist and extreme separatist, insisted on complete repudiation of
Church of England, pastored Plymouth 1632-1633, Salem in defiance of General
Court 1634, convicted of spreading “dangerous opinions” 1635 (OI, 430), founded
Providence and Colony of Rhode Island on basis of complete religious toleration
1636, founded first Baptist church in America 1639, got patent on Rhode Island
from England 1643, 1st President of Rhode Island 1654-1657
1605-1675, Cecilius Calvert, charter for Maryland,
granting him “rights of a feudal sovereign” but never visited
1620-1700, Pilgrims, means wanderer, typically
Congregational in belief, “spiritual form of church government they embraced
was closer to that of a republic than that of a monarchy or oligarchy” (OI,
413-414)
1632-1694, Samuel de Puffendorf, Clergyman,
Sweden, Lutheran, congressman, political philosopher, published complete system
of universal law 1660, Eight Books on the Law of Nature and Nations 1672
and summary On the Duty of Man and Citizen 1673, became historian for
Swedish King 1677
1632-1704, John Locke, Clergyman, political
philosopher, Theologian, author, Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1693), and The Reasonableness of
Christianity (1695)—not necessarily clergy
1637-1715, Charles Calvert, 2nd proprietor of
Maryland
1644-1718, William Penn, Clergyman, congressman,
est. government of and became Governor of Pennsylvania, “holy experiment” (OI,
412)
1658-1743, Rev. James Blair, Clergyman,
Episcopal, missionary to Virginia, helped found and became president of William
and Mary College (1692)
1688-1747, Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, Clergyman,
pastor of Congregational church at Elizabethtoown, NJ, 40 years, first
president of College of New Jersey, later Princeton
1689-1755, Charles Louis Secondat Baron de la Brede et
de Montesquieu, political philosopher in France, author The Spirit of
Laws (1748), his theory of three distinct forms of government, “the
separation of powers,” and “checks and balances” became part of American
constitutional philosophy
1689-1781, Farfaxes, William, George, Sarrah Cary
Fairfax, landowner, President of Council on Virginia
1703-1758, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman,
Congregationalist, leader of Great Awakening, president of Princeton
38
1791-1873, Peter Vroom, attorney, congressman,
judge, Governor of New Jersey 1829, 1831, 1833-1836, Chief Justice New Jersey
1853, VP American Bible Society, VP American Colonization Society, member of
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Mason
1792-1875, Charles Finney, Clergyman,
Mason then anti-Mason, attorney, 1821 religious experience, revivals spread
through New York, New England, 1824-1834, weekly New York Evangelist,
president of Oberlin College, abolitionist and anti-Mason, yet had
received degrees in Meridian Sun Lodge No. 32, Warren, CT, 1816, served as secretary pro tem at
2-24-1820, discharged at his own request on 5-6-1824 when he received his
license to as a minister by St. Lawrence Presbytery; he even published anti-Masonic
newspaper The Christian Cynosure with David Blanchard and Bishop David
Edwards in formation of National Christian Association 1868 whose purpose was
to oppose all secret societies, and this grew into the American Party in 1872
which was short lived; dissension and jealousies in ranks made movement die
1795-1858, Dred Scott, slave on Virginia
plantation of Captain Peter Blow, passed to several owners, wealthy sons of
Blow filled suits in Missouri State courts to free Scott, Supreme Court ruled
could not free him while in another state, later emancipated by Taylor Blow
1801-1841, Napoleon Achille Murat, congressman,
accompanied Lafayette on final tour of America 1824, alderman of Tallahassee
1824 and mayor in 1825
1802-1876, Harriet Martineau, England, deaf,
author, Society in America from visit 1834-1836
1803-1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clergyman,
Unitarian, Second Unitarian Church Bonston 1829, abolitionists, formed
Transcendental Club 1836, “leading figure in removing all vestiges of
Christianity from Unitarianism by the introduction of mysticism and
transcendentalism into that movement” (OI, 388)
1805-1859, Alexis Henri Charles Maurice Clerel Comte
de Tocqueville, French observer of America, wrote De la Démocratie en
Améerique (Democracy in America) and “wrote first book of reasoned politics
on democratic government in America and concluded that equality of condition
was the foundation of American democracy and was amazed that without violence
America had been transformed from what was essentially aristocratic rule to a
more extended suffrage” (OI, 426)
1809-1865, Abraham Lincoln, attorney, 16th U.S.
President
1809-1894, Robert Winthrop, attorney, congressman,
member of Massachusetts Historical Society 1839-1894
1823-1896, Charles Carleton Coffin, author,
congressman
1826-1906, Christopher Columbus Langdell,
attorney, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School 1870-1895, originator of
case-law method of study from Darwin’s thesis of evolution as applied to law,
where decisions by judges become standard of law rather than literal wording of
the Constitution
Mason
1831-1881, James A. Garfield, Clergyman,
attorney, Christian Church, Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature in
Hiram College, Ohio 1856, president 1857-1861, congressman, Civil War Brigadier-General,
12th President of U.S.
1831-1900, William Wirt Henry, attorney,
congressman, compiler of work of Patrick Henry
Mason
1833-1899, Robert Ingersol,
attorney, soldier, congressman, known as “The Great Agnostic” (OI, 397), for
following Darwinism and humanistic rationalism
1841-1932, Oliver Wendell Holmes, attorney,
appointed Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt 1902-1932
1856-1941, Louis Brandis, attorney, to Supreme
Courty by President Woodrow Wilson
1862-1948, Charles Evans Hughes, congressman,
Governor of New York 1906-1910, appointed Chief Justice Supreme Court by Pres.
Herbert Hoover
1870 - 1938, Benjamin Cardozo, attorney, Supreme
Court by Pres. Herbert Hoover, judicial positivism
Mason
1870-1964, Roscoe Pound, attorney,
legal scholar, dean of Harvard Divinity 1899-1903, helped Taiwan judicial
system, legal positivist, shared with Learned Hand reputation of being nation’s
leading jurist outside of the U.S. Supreme Court
1874-1948, Charles Beard, and wife Mary
(1876-1958), historians, political scientists, authors, including History of
the United States (1921) and Rise of American Civilization (1942)
1874-1950, William E. Woodward, author, VP and
director of several banks, New American History, considered by many to
be blatant revisionist
1878-1949, James Truslow Adams, historian
1882-1965, Felix Frankferter, attorney, Professor
of Law Harvard 1914, founder of ACLU 1920, advisor to FDR, appointed to Supreme
Court 1939-1962
1891-1974, Earl Warren, attorney, first to win
both Democratic and Republican nomination for Governor 1946, Supreme Court by
Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1952, Chief Justice 1953-1969, chairman of
investigation of assassination of President Kennedy, liberal to extreme on
civil liberties, helping to reshape Constitution into evolving document,
involved in Court “assault on public religious expressions” (OI, 428)
Mason
1892-1954, Robert Houghwout Jackson,
attorney, appointed by FDR to general counsel to Bureau of Internal Revenue
1934, Attorney General under FDR, appointed to International Military Tribunal
for Nürmberg Trials by Pres. Harry S. Truman 1945
1898-1980, William Orville Douglas, attorney,
author, appointed by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt to Supreme Court and stayed
longer than any in history (1939-1975), wrote Almanac of Liberty 1954
1900-1989, Claude Pepper, attorney, congressman,
sponsored bill that halted mandatory retirement for most Federal employees
1906-1990, circa, William Brennan, attorney, Supreme
Court by President Dwight Eisenhower 1956-1990, “believed that the
Constitution’s meaning should evolve to fit the changing standards of society;
he struck down school prayer, upheld flag desecration, and upheld abortion”
(OI, 380)
1907-1995, Warren Burger, attorney, to Supreme
Court by Richard Nixon, moderate, controversial on abortion, affirmative
action, separation of church and state
1908-1993, Thurgood Marshall, attorney, first
African American to Supreme Court by Pres. Lyndon Johnson 1967-1992, liberal,
affirmed right to have obscene material, opposed death penalty
1913-2000, circa, George Smathers, attorney, soldier,
congressman
1915-1985, Potter Stewart, attorney, sailor,
congressman, Supreme Court by Pres. Dwight De. Eisenhower 1958-1981, swing
vote, moderate and at times liberal
1917-2000, circa, Byron White, attorney, sailor,
congressman, was “Whizzer” for abilities as a running back, Supreme Court by
Pres. John F. Kennedy
1920-2000, circa, John Paul Steven, attorney, sailor,
Seventh Circuit by Pres. Gerald Ford, Supreme Court 1975, liberal and
conservative on issues
1924-2005, William Rehnquist, attorney, Supreme
Court by Pres. Richard Nixon 1972, to Chief Justice by Pres. Ronald Regan 1986,
considered conservative and Court’s best historical scholars
1936-2000, Anthony Mcloed Kennedy, attorney,
appointed Supreme Court by Pres. Ronald Regan
1936-2005, circa, Antonin Scalia, attorney, Supreme Court
by Pres. Ronald Regan 1986, conservative
1948-2005, circa, Clarence Thomas, attorney, Supreme Court by Pres. George Bush 1991,
approved by smallest margin in over 100 years, conservative on all issues
upholding original intent
48
– 15 Before 1776; 28 >16 Years Old in 1776; 5 <16 Years Old
in 1789
1100-1155, Gratian, Clergyman, theologian, order of
St. Benedict, his Harmony of Conflicting Canons also known as Gratian’s
Decrees “was at the time thought by Popes and Bishops to be the most
important book on church law; is considered the ‘Father of Canon Law’” (OI,
392)
1320-1384, John Wycliffe, Clergyman, master of Balliol College,
England, “discovered that a relationship with God could be obtained without
help of a priest or sacraments” (OI, 432), taught Scriptures were supreme
authority, Rome pronounced him heretic, first person to try to translate Bible
into English, after death full translation of Latin Vulgate into English 1388,
followers became Lollards with John Huss spread Wycliffe teachings to nearly a
national religion, known as “The Morning Star of the Reformation” (OI, 433) and
Luther quoted from him a lot
1373-1415, John Huss, Clergyman, Catholic Priest,
Bohemian reformer, study of Scripture
1483-1546, Rev. Martin Luther, Clergyman, responsible for
the Protestant Reformation
1490-1536, William Tyndale, Clergyman, theologian,
trans. N.T., completed octavo edition 1526, author of Parable of the Wicked
Mammon and Obedience of a Christian Man two main principles of the
English Reformation and argued for supremacy of Scriptures
1553-1600, Rev. Richard Hooker, Clergyman, theologian, political
philosopher, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity and considered the
“Father of Anglicanism” (OI, 395)
1579-1633, Father Andrew White, Clergyman, English mission
field, exiled to France, entered Society of Jesus (1605-1609), Professor of
Theology, wrote famous Declaration Coloniae which provided purposes of
colonies and terms of settlers, known as “The Apostle of Maryland” (OI, 430)
1583-1645, Hugo Grotius, Clergyman, attorney, one of
the founders of international law, with publication of On the Law of War and
Peace 1625
1603-1684, Roger Williams, Clergyman, emigrated to
Purity Colony 1624, non-conformist and extreme separatist, insisted on complete
repudiation of Church of England, pastored Plymouth 1632-1633, Salem in
defiance of General Court 1634, convicted of spreading “dangerous opinions”
1635 (OI, 430), founded Providence and Colony of Rhode Island on basis of
complete religious toleration 1636, founded first Baptist church in America
1639, obtained patent on Rhode Island from England 1643, first President of
Rhode Island 1654-1657
1632-1694, Samuel de Puffendorf, Clergyman, Sweden,
Lutheran, congressman, political philosopher, published complete system of
universal law 1660, Eight Books on the Law of Nature and Nations 1672
and summary On the Duty of Man and Citizen 1673, became historian for
Swedish King 1677
1632-1704, John Locke, Clergyman, political
philosopher, Theologian, author, Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1693), and The Reasonableness of
Christianity (1695)—not necessarily clergy
1644-1718, William Penn, Clergyman, congressman,
est. government of and became Governor of Pennsylvania, “holy experiment” (OI,
412)
1658-1743, Rev. James Blair, Clergyman, Episcopal,
missionary to Virginia, helped found and became president of William and Mary
College (1692)
1688-1747, Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, Clergyman, pastor of
Congregational church at Elizabethtoown, NJ, 40 years, first president of
College of New Jersey, later Princeton
1703-1758, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman,
Congregationalist, leader of Great Awakening, president of Princeton
>16 in 1776 – 4 of 28 Clergy Freemasons, for
14%--------------------
1710-1785, Rev. Jonathan Trumbull, Clergyman, businessman,
judge, congressman, minister church in Colshester, CT, Governor Connecticut
1769-1784, only Colonial Governor who served from start to finish of American
Revolution, “probably contributed more to the Revolution in the way of arms,
munitions, supplies, men, etc., than any other Governor; was a close counsel of
General Washington throughout the War” (OI, 427)
1711-1779, Eleazer Wheelock, Clergyman, popular
preacher in Great Awakening, educated Indians, est. Dartmouth 1770 and remained
president until death
1715-1757, Rev. Aaron Burr, Clergyman, Presbyterian and
college president, called to First Church of Newark, involved in revivals of
Great Awakening 1746
1715-1766, Rev. Samuel Farley, Clergyman, taught Benjamin
Rush, president of Princeton 1761-1766
1716-1778, Phillip Livingston, merchant, congressman,
signed Declaration, president of the New York Provincial Convention
1720-1766, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman, pastor of
West Church, Boston 1747, preached Christianity on Scriptures and not Calvinism,
defender of civil liberty, including on sermon after repeal of Stamp Act titled
The Snare Broken 1766, well thought of by patriots including John Adams
1723-1761, Rev. Samuel Davies, Clergyman, influential in
Great Awakening, Presbyterian, President of Princeton after friend, Jonathan
Edwards
1723-1794, John Whitherspoon, Clergyman,
congressman, Presbyterian, Calvinist churchman, President of Princeton
1768-1776, signed Declaration, author of theological work
1724-1790, Rev. Lyman Hall, Clergyman, physician,
congressman, signer of Declaration
1725-1783, Rev. Samuel Cooper, Clergyman, pastor of
puritan Brattle Square Church in Boston 1747, declined presidency of Harvard
1774, British often ordered his arrest for advocating American Independence,
“close friend of Adams, Franklin, and other patriots” (OI, 385)
1731-1814, Rev. Robert Treat Paine, Clergyman, attorney,
congressman, judge of Massachusetts Supreme Court
1733-1804, Rev. Joseph Priestly, Clergyman, scientist,
knew several languages, for French Revolution, moved to America
1737-1798, Jacob Duché, Clergyman, Anglican,
authored political sermons, asked for recall of Declaration, branded traitor,
fled to Britain, later allowed to return
1738-1816, Rev. Bishop Richard Watson, Clergyman,
England, educator, scientist, author, Professor of Chemistry 1764, Professor of
the Regius Chair of Divinity 1771 Trinity College, answered Gibbon’s attack on
Christianity in Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776, was one
of two opponents Gibbons respected, authored Apology for the Bible against
Thomas Paine’s work 1796, opposed to war with America and denounced slave trade
1744-1826, Rev. James Hall, Clergyman, soldier, active in
American Bible Society
Mason,
1746-1807, Rev. John
Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, Clergyman, soldier, congressman,
Lutheran pasturing in Woodstock, VA, Major-General, helped frame Bill of Rights
1749-1806, Rev. Matthias Burnet, Clergyman, pastor of
Congregational church in Norwalk, CT
Mason,
1750-1801, Rev. Frederick
Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, Clergyman, pastor of Christ
German Lutheran congregation in New York 1773-1776, original speaker of U.S.
House of Representatives 1789-1797 where he helped frame Bill of Rights
Mason,
1751-1824, Rev. William
Rogers, Clergyman, educator, chaplain of
Pennsylvania rifle regiment, militia, and legislature, Professor of Oratory and
English Literature at College of Philadelphia 1789-1792, VP of Religious
Historical Society of Philadelphia 1819
1754-1807, Abraham Baldwin, Clergyman, Professor of
Divinity at Yale, chaplain in
Revolutionary Army 1777-83, “Father of University of Georgia” (OI, 375)
1754-1812, Joel Barlow, Clergyman, author, poet,
President of Bank of Washington
1755-1795, William Gradford, Clergyman, Theologian,
attorney, soldier, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, made U.S. Attorney by
President George Washington in 1794
1758-1799, Rev. Chandler Robbins, Clergyman, pastor of
church in Plymouth 1759-1799, 1795 church had 2,500 members and was believed to
be largest in Massachusetts
1760-1831, Richard Allen, Clergyman, est. Free
African Society, 1787, helped “frame Bill of Rights” and ordained a deacon in an
independent Black Methodist church which he helped found (1799), considered the
founder and first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.)
donomination
1762-1848, Rev. Ashbel Green, Clergyman, soldier, minister at
Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia 1787-1812, chaplain of Congress
1792-1800, wrote historic declaration against slavery, author of plan for
Princeton Theological Seminary
1763-1837, Rev. Abiel Holmes, Clergyman, Congregationalist,
pastor of First Church in Cambridge 1792-1829, historian Annals of America
from the Discovery of Columbus in the Year 1492 to the Year 1826, first
extensive attempt at a history, father of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mason,
1772-1849, Rev. David
Lawrence
Morril,
Clergyman, studied medicine, pastor of Presbyterian Church of Goffstown
1802-1811, VP American Bible Society 1821-1830, manager in American Sunday
School Union
1774-1844, Rev. Abner Kneeland, Clergyman, Universalist, congressman, translated N.T., liberal, pastor of
Second Universalist Society 1827, expounded pantheism in Boston Investigator
1831, tried and convicted of both libel and blasphemy
<16 in 1789 – 2 of 5 Freemasons for
40%-------------------
1780-1842, Rev. William Ellery Channing, Clergyman, Unitarian, opponent
of slavery, Federal Street Church, Boston (1803-42), opposed to Calvinism
1787-1850, Rev. William Cogswell, Clergyman, trustee of Andover
Theological Seminary (1837)
Mason,
1792-1875, Charles
Finney,
Clergyman, attorney, 1821 religious experience, revivals spread through
New York, New England, 1824-1834, weekly New York Evangelist, president
of Oberlin College, abolitionist and anti-Mason
1803-1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clergyman, Unitarian, Second Unitarian
Church Bonston 1829, abolitionists, formed Transcendental Club 1836, “leading
figure in removing all vestiges of Christianity from Unitarianism by the
introduction of mysticism and transcendentalism into that movement” (OI, 388)
Mason,
1831-1881, James
A. Garfield,
Clergyman, attorney, Christian Church, Professor of Ancient Languages
and Literature in Hiram College, Ohio 1856, president 1857-1861, congressman,
Civil War Brigadier-General, 12th President of U.S.
As mentioned above,
LaHaye’s top two were Freemasons George Washington and Benjamin Franklin,
followed by Freemasons James Madison, Roger Sherman, and Alexander Hamilton,
and non-Masons Gouverneur Morris and George Mason. Five out of LeHaye’s top
seven were Freemasons, or 71%—remarkable. Then LeHaye give three more lists:
two lists of 16 and one of 15—for 47—that gives us 54 significant Founding
Fathers in LaHaye (47 + 5 + 2 = 54). Of the 54, 14 or 26% are unique to LaHaye
(u=unique), and 19 of the 54 were Freemasons, for 35%; that means of the 54
Founding Fathers in LeHaye, 24 or 44% were Freemasons.
16
Mason
1754-1807, Abraham Baldwin, Congregationalist, army chaplain, lawyer, congressman
1745-1815, Richard Bassett, Methodist, lawyer, captain in Revolution, Governor
Mason
1747-1812, Gunning Bedford, Presbyterian,
lawyer, state attorney general, member Continental Congress
Mason
u1732-1800, John Blair, Episcopalian, leader in Revolution, Supreme Court
Justice
Mason
1745-1790, David Brearly, Episcopalian, lawyer, colonel in Revolution, Chief
Justice
Mason
1752-1810, Jacob Broom, Lutheran, surveyor, banker, developed Delaware
1732-1803, John Dickinson, Quaker, Episcopalian, lawyer, congressman, helped
draft articles of confederation
1727-1819, William Samuel Johnson, Anglican Clergyman, first president of King’s College NY, great grandson of
Robert Johnson who immigrated to America in 1638 to assist in founding godly
commonwealth at New Haven
Mason
1755-1827, Rufus King, Episcopalian, lawyer, congressman
Mason
1741-1819, John Langdon, Congregationalist, congressman
1723-1790, William Livingston, Presbyterian, lawyer, Brigadier General,
Governor NJ, congressman
Mason
1753-1816, James McHenry, Presbyterian, physician, soldier, congressman, directed
est. of West Point
Mason
1745-1806, William Paterson, Presbyterian, congressman, Supreme Court justice
1746-1825, Charles Cotsworth
Pinckney, Episcopalian, statesman, lawyer, congressman, minister to France
1733-1798, George Read, Episcopalian, lawyer, judge, signer of Declaration,
congressman
u1735-1819, Hugh Williamson, Presbyterian Clergyman,
physician, scientist, Continental Congress, congressman
16
1749-1800, William Blount, Presbyterian, planter, congressman, signed Constitution
u1744-1824, Pierce Butler, Episcopalian, wealthy planter, congressman, signed
Constitution
1730-1796, Daniel Carrol, Catholic, planter, congressman, committee to define
Washington, D.C., signed Constitution
u1739-1813, George Clymer, Quaker, Episcopalian, banker, signer of Declaration
too, signed Constitution
Mason
1760-1824, Jonathan Dayton, Episcopalian, lawyer, congressman, signed
Constitution
1741-1811, William Few, Methodist, farmer, lawyer, banker, congressman, signed
Constitution
Mason
u1755-1814, Nicholas Gilman, Congregationalist, captain in Revolution,
congressman, signed Constitution
1748-1796, Nathaniel Gorham, Congregationalist, helped write Constitution,
financier, signed Constitution
1749-1822, Jared Ingersoll, Presbyterian, lawyer, signed Constitution
1723-1790, Daniel Jenifer, Episcopalian, congressman, signed Constitution
u1744-1800, Thomas Mifflin, Quaker, Episcopalian, soldier in Revolution,
Governor Pennsylvania, congressman, signed Constitution
1734-1806, Robert Morris, Episcopalian, financier of Revolution, signed
Articles of Confederation, Declaration, Constitution, signed Constitution
u1757-1824, Charles Pinckney III, Episcopalian, planter, lawyer, Governor SC,
congressman, signed Constitution
1737-1800, John Rutledge, Episcopalian, lawyer, state attorney general, chief
justice of SC, U.S. Supreme Court, signed Constitution
Mason
1758-1802, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Episcopalian, planter, congressman, signed
Constitution
Mason
1742-1798, James Wilson, Episcopalian-Deist, lawyer, Supreme Court, signed
Constitution
15
u1756-1820, William Richardson Davie, Presbyterian, lawyer, planter, founder
Univ. NC, minister to France, member Continental Congress did not sign
Constitution
Mason
1745-1807, Oliver Ellsworth, Congregationalist, lawyer, judge, congressman,
member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
Mason
1744-1814, Eldridge Gerry, Episcopalian, signed Declaration, Articles
Confederation, Governor MA, VP U.S., member Continental Congress did not sign
Constitution
u1746-1788, William Churchill Houston, Presbyterian, lawyer, member Continental
Congress did not sign Constitution
Mason
u1757-1813, William Houstoun, Episcopalian, planter, lawyer, congressman,
member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
u1754-1829, John Lansing, Dutch Reformed, lawyer, mayor of Albany NY, Chief
Justice NY, member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
Mason
1740-1807, Alexander Martin, Episcopalian, lawyer, planter, congressman 35
years, Governor NC, member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
1748-1826, Luther Martin, Episcopalian, lawyer, attorney general, member
Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
u1746-1823, James McClung, physician, banker, religion not known but
appointment arranged by Washington and Patrick Henry, member Continental
Congress did not sign Constitution
u1759-1821, John Francis Mercer, Episcopalian, lawyer, Governor MD,
congressman, member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
Mason
1740-1789, William Pierce, Episcopalian, merchant, author of only character
sketches of 55 constitutional delegates, member Continental Congress did not
sign Constitution
Mason
1753-1813, Edmund Jennings Randolph, Episcopalian, lawyer, Mayor of
Williamsburg, Governor of Continental Congress, first U.S. Attorney General,
Secretary of State, member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
1745-1819, Caleb Strong, Congregationalist, lawyer, congressman, member
Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
1726-1806, George Wythe, Episcopalian, judge, law professor, congressman,
signed Declaration, member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
u1738-1801, Robert Yates, Dutch Reformed, lawyer, leader Revolution in NY,
Chief Justice NY, member Continental Congress did not sign Constitution
Top
most military rank and date promoted, all Continental Army unless noted.
1. 1732-1799, George
Washington, Commander in Chief, 1st President
2. 1718-1790, Israel
Putnam, one of first Major Generals,
1775, and only one to serve throughout the war.
3. 1738-1775, Richard
Montgomery, Brigadier General 1775 whose promotion to Major General did not
reach him before was killed at Quebec on 12-31-1775.
4. 1740-1795, John
Sullivan, Major General 1776, Attorney General and then Governor of NH.
5. 1741-1801, Benedict
Arnold, Major General 1777, deserted 1780.
6. 1736-1818, Arthur
St. Clair, Major General and Commander U.S. Army 1791.
7. 1733-1810, Benjamin
Lincoln, Major General 1777, Secretary of War 1781.
8. 1757-1834, Marquis
de LaFayette, Major General 1777.
9. 1730-1794, Baron
Von Steuben, Major General and Inspector General 1778.
10. 1737-1789, Samuel
Holden Parson, Major General 1780.
11. 1750-1806, Henry
Knox, Major General 1782, Commander and Chief of Army 1783, Secretary of War
1785-1794.
12. 1711-1777, David
Wooster, Major General 1775 CT, Brigadier General Continental 1775.
13. 1712-1794, Joseph
Frye, Major General MA militia 1775, Brigadier General Continental 1776.
14. 1736-1781, William
Thompson, Brigadier General 1776.
15. 1725-1777, Hugh
Mercer, Brigadier General 1776.
16. 1727-1815, John
Nixon, Brigadier General 1776.
17. 1733-1812, James
Clinton, Brigadier General 1776.
18. 1733-1796, William
Maxwell, Brigadier General 1776.
19. 1732-1797, John
Glover, Brigadier General 1777, whose men took Washington across the
Delaware on that eventful Christmas night in 1776 and whose men took
Washington’s men off Long Island after a defeat.
20. 1744-1808, John
Paterson, Brevet Major General 1783.
21. 1748-1789, James
Mitchell Varnum, Brigadier General 1777, Major General RI militia.
22. 1734-1780, William
Woodford, Brigadier General 1777.
23. 1746-1807, John
Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, Major General 1783.
24. 1734-1793, George
Weedon, Brigadier General 1777.
25. 1744-1802, Edward
Hand, Brigadier General 1777, Adjutant General 1781, Brevet Major General
1783, Major General 1798.
26. 1728-1822, John
Stark, Brigadier General 1777.
27. 1733-1785, Jethro
Sumner, Brigadier General 1779.
28. 17??-1781, James
Hogun, Major General GA militia 1776, Brigadier General Continental 1779.
29. 1742-1792, Mordeci
Gist, Brigadier General 1779.
30. 1749-1794, Otho
Holland Williams, Brigadier General 1782.
31. 1741-1783, John
Greaton, Brigadier General 1783.
32. 1738-1824, Rufus
Putnam, Brigadier General 1783.
33. 1737-1807, Elias
Dayton, Brigadier General 1783.
34.
NOTE:
we could have included many more; I just got tired—a few are above too.
1. Mason 1703-1773, John Entick, Clergyman, Church of England and
school master, remembered for his edition of Book of Constitutions 1756 of
Freemasonry, omitting marred versions of Anderson’s second edition of 1738; he
was grand steward in 1755 and junior grand warden in 1758; his Latin dictionary
was used for many years in schools.
2. Mason 1711-1794, Joseph Frye, General in Revolutionary War, was a
colonel when Montcalm captured Fort William Henry in 1757, appointed major
general by Mass. Provincial congress in June of 1775, made Brigadier General by
Continental Congress on 1-10-1776, was a member of Massachusetts Lodge and was
general secretary.
3. Mason 1714-1786, Charles
Humphreys, member Continental Congress 1774-1776, Quaker who opposed war,
voted for Declaration of Independence, member Provincial Congress 1764-1774.
4. Mason 1718-1790, Israel
Putnam, Lt. Colonel at Lexington
Alarm, April 1775, first of four Major General appointed 1775 and only one
to serve throughout war.
5. Mason 1721-1775, Peyton
Randolph, member first Continental Congress & first president of
congress, King’s attorney in VA 1748, speaker of House of Bergesses 1766 and
member 1764-1775.
6. Mason 1722-1725, Samuel Fraunces, revolutionary tavernkeeper and
patriot, a West Indian Negro who kept Fraunces Tavern in New York City 1762-65
and 1770-89, and from 1789-94 was household steward to George Washington,
member of the Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City.
7. Mason 1723-1781, Cornelius
Harnett, Town Commissioner, New Hanover, Chairman Sons of Liberty NC,
member Continental Congress 1777-1780, governor of NC, hailed as “Samuel Adams
of North Carolina,” captured by British in NC 1781 and died as prisoner.
8. Mason 1725-1777, Hugh
Mercer, studied medicine Marichall College, Aberdeen, to Philadelphia 1747
to practice medicine, Brigadier General Continental Army 1776, died from wounds
at Princeton.
9. Mason 1727-1815, John
Nixon, helped in siege of Louisbourg 1745, Capt. provincial troups under
General Abercrombie at Ticonderoga, Capt.
Minute Men at Lexington, April 19, 1775, Brigadier General Continental Army
1776, member of Congregational Church for many years.
10. Mason 1727-1795, Daniel
Roberdeau, entered America early age, settled Philadelphia, member
Continental Congress 1777-1779, Brigadier General PN militia and first of his
rank, manager of Philadelphia Hospital.
11. Mason 1728-1822, John
Stark, Colonel NH 1775, Brevet Major General 1783.
12. Mason 1728-1806, Horatio Gates, Major General of Continental Army
in American Revolution, in 1772 took up land at invitation of Washington and
settled down in Virginia, when Revolution broke out made Brigadier General in
July 1775 and next year Major General, remained loyal to Washington in spite of
association with Benedict Arnold, probably member of Lodge at Annapolis Royal,
Nova Scotia, where active lodges were between 1738-1755; on
12-18-1778 the Grand Lodge of MA invited him and other Masons to dine and feast
for St. John’s Day.
13. Mason 1729-1797, Edmund Burke, British statesman favoring cause
of colonies, Protestant Father and Catholic Mother, high position in Whigs,
advocated abolition of slavery, thought to be a member of Jerusalem Lodge No.
44, Clerkenwell, London, sometimes called “Burke’s Lodge”; he championed John
Wilkes when imprisoned for libel and wrote pamphlet in defense and members of
Jerusalem Lodge went to the prison and made Wilkes a Mason in King’s Bench
Prison on March 3, 1769.
14. Mason 1729-1813, William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin, last
royal Governor of NJ under the British, uncertain as to which Lodge, he was a
member of either St. John’s No. 1 or the Tun Tavern Lodge, he was grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania 1755, was with
his father when he visited the Grand Lodge of England.
15. Mason 1730-1790, Jethro
Sumner, Brig. Gen. Revolution, 1760 paymaster for provincial troops in NC,
Royal White Hart Lodge No. 2, Helifax.
16. Mason 1730-1730, Joseph
Hewes, member first & second Continental Congresses, 1774-77, 1779,
prominent legislator, member of “Committee on the Marine and was in effect
first Secretary of Navy.”
17. Mason 17??-1781, James
Hogun, Major GA militia, Brigadier General Continental Army, taken prisoner
at Charleston and died prisoner, member assemble in Halifax
18. Mason 1730-1791, William Bernet, member of Constitutional
Convention in 1776, pioneer physician, when Grand Lodge of New Jersey was charted
Nova Caesarea Lodge No. 10, Cincittati, on Sept. 8, 1791, he was named its first
master.
19. Mason 1730-1797, Thomas Chittenden, first Governor of Vermont,
member of Vermont Lodge (now Windsor No. 18), was charter master of Dorchester Lodge of
Vergennes, chartered in 1791 by the Grand Lodge of Canada, now No. 1 under the Grand Lodge of Vermont.
20. Mason 1730-1785, William
Whipple, sailor in slave trade, but abandoned it and liberated his slaves,
member of second Continental Congress, 1775-1776 & 1778, Brigadier General
NH militia, member Provincial Congress Exeter 1775, member state assembly
1780-1784, financial Receiver for NH 1782-1784.
21. Mason 1732-1800, John
Blair, delegate to Constitutional Convention 1787, one of first associate
justices of Supreme Court, chief justice Virginia.
22. Mason 1732-1797, John
Glover, Brigadier General Continental Army, took Washington men across
Delware that eventful Christmas night in 1776, congressman in House.
23. Mason 1733-1812, James
Clinton, served in French and Indian War, Brigadier General in Continental
Army, Brevet Major General 1783, father of DeWitt Clinton who became Governor
of NY and Grand Master of Masons in NY.
24. Mason 1733-1798, William
Maxwell, French and Indian War, Brigadier General Continental Army 1776,
served with Army at Valley Forge winter 1777-1778, no likeness of him found.
25. Mason 1733-1785, Jethro
Sumner, Brigadier General Continental Army 1779, President of NC Society of
Cincinnati.
26. Mason 1733-1816, Samuel
Johnston, Gov. of NC, congressman, Royal Edwin Lodge No. 5, Unanimity Lodge No. 7, first Grand Master of Grand Lodge of NC, 1787-92.
27. Mason 1734-1780, William
Woodford, Brigadier General Continental Army 1777, wounded at Brandywine,
marched troops 500 miles in 28 days to Charleston, died in captivity 1780;
related to Washington by marriage and “one of the Commander in Chief’s most
trusted and confidential generals.”
28. Mason 1734-1824, William Fleming, American patriot and jurist,
member of Virginia conventions 1775-76, Continental Conventions 1779-81, lodge
not known, but attended sessions of Grand Lodge of Virginia Oct. 1791.
29. Mason 1734-1793, George
Weedon, Lt. Colonel VA, Brigadier General Continental Army 1777, one of
original member Society of Cincinnati & president 1783 & 1786.
30. Mason 1735-1799, Joseph Cilley, first Major General of New
Hampshire militia, made master Mason on June 15, 1775, in St. John’s Lodge No.
1, Portsmouth, NH.
31. Mason 1736-1781, William
Thompson, Brig. Gen. Revolution, helped raise first troops on demand of
Continental Congress, relieved Gen. Charles Lee of command in NY, made Mason in
Philadelphia Lodge No. 2 with two other
generals.
32. Mason 1736-1818, Arthur
St. Clair, studied medicine at Univ. Edinburgh under John Hunter, came to
America 1759, Colonel in PN militia, Major General and Commander of US Army,
member Continental Congress 1785-1787 & presiden 1787
33. Mason 1737-1818, Jonas Fay, American patriot, with two member of
Vermont Lodge No. 18 (Ira Allen and
Thomas Chittenden) led the fight that est. Vermont as the 14th state, made
Freemason in Master’s Lodge No. 5, Albany, NY, member of convention in Jan. 1777 that made
Vermont a state.
34. Mason 17??-1799, John
Fitzgerald, Lt. Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to Washington, close friend of
Washington, mayor of Alexandria, VA, helped found Catholic church there.
35. Mason 1737-1807, Elias
Dayton, Brigadier General, Continental Army, trustee of Presbyterian Church
in Elizabethtown, congressman in NJ legislature.
36. Mason 1737-1789, Samuel
Holden Parsons, King’s attorney 1773, Colonel
at Lexington Alarm, April 1775, Major General 1780, president of CT Society
of Cincinnati 1784.
37. Mason 1738-1775, Richard
Montgomery, British officer in Halifax 1757, became Brigadier General
Continental Army 1775, member of first Provincial Convention, NY, 1775.
38. Mason 1738-1779, Edward
Biddle, pre-revolutionary leader, member Continental Congress 1774-75, 1778,
1779, member state assembly 1767-1775, Speaker 1774.
39. Mason 1738-1810, John Frost, Brigadier General in American
Revolution, was Lt. Colonel at siege of Boston, won several engagements, member
of St. Andrews Lodge, Boston, MA.
40. Mason 1740-1879, John
Sullivan, Major General in Revolution, Gov. NH, first Grand Master of Grand
Lodge of NH, POW,
Master of St. John’s Lodge.
41. Mason 1741-1783, John
Greaton, Brigadier General Continental Army.
42. Mason 1741-1780, William
Palfrey, Major & Aide-de-Camp to General Lee and to Washington,
Paymaster General 1776, appointed US Consul to France 1780, sailed and lost at
sea.
43. Mason 1741-1804, George
Walton, lawyer Savannah, member second Continental Congress 1776-1781, US
Senator 1795, twice governor of GA, first judge of Superior Courts of Eastern
Judicial district
44. Mason 1742-1814, Simon
Spalding, soldier, general in PA militia, capt. in Revolution, Rural Amith
Lodge No. 179.
45. Mason 1743-1788, Samuel Elbert, Revolutionary Brigadier General,
Governor of Georgia, last grand master of Georgia to be appointed by the United
Grand Lodge of England, 1774 appointed Capt. grenadier company, Lt. Colonel
in 1776, member of Solomon Lodge No. 1, Savannah.
46. Mason 1743-1798, John Fitch, inventor of steam boat, Lodge No. 25
of Bristol, PA, 1-4-1785.
47. Mason 1744-1809, John
Walker, Lt. Colonel & Aide-de-Camp for Washington, appointed Senator to
fill after death of William Grayson.
48. Mason 1744-1802, Edward
Hand, Major General of United States, appointed by Washington Ispector of
Revenue District PN, Lay Deputry of Diocesan Convention of Episcopal Church in
Philadelphia, President of PN Society of the Cincinnati, 1799.
49. Mason 1744-1808, John
Paterson, Yale lawyer, Colonel in MA regiment, Brevet Major General 1783,
practiced law in Lenox, MA, after war, member NY state legislature, State
Constitutional Convention 1801, monument in Lenox to him.
50. Mason 1745-1799, William
Dawes, merchant, tanner, one of famous midnight riders who road with Paul
Revere 1775, who warned John Hancock and John Adams in time to save them; known
to be a Mason, but not proof.
51. Mason 1745-1806, William
Paterson, emigrated to colonies 1747, elected delegate to 1787 Continental
Congress but could not serve as he was attorney general NJ, US Senate 1789,
resigned to become governor of NJ, Assoc. Justice to US Supreme Court 1793 to
death.
52. Mason 1747-1806, Richard
Cary, Lt. Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to Washington; Washington said he “was
the greatest gentleman in the American Army.”
53. Mason 1748-1789, James
Mitchell Varnum, lawyer, colonel RI regiment, Major General RI Militia,
President of RI Society of Cincinnati 1786.
54. Mason 1749-1794, Otho
Holland Williams, Major in Stephenson’s Maryland and Virginia Rifle
Regiment, Brigadier General Continental Army 1782, appointed Collector of
Customs at Baltimore, president of MD Society of Cincinnati 1792.
55. Mason 1749-1831, Isaiah
Thomas, patriot and printer, publisher of Massachusetts Spy,
published attacks on British, joined Paul Revere, was first printer to use music type, published Farmer’s Museum, Printed most of the Bibles and school books
used in the country, not known where made a Mason, but became Master of
Trinity Lodge of Lancaster MA, founding
member of Morning Star Lodge of Worcester MA, was Senior
Grand Warden of Grand Lodge of MA, and Grand Master of Grand Lodge MA 1803-05,
and help lay cornerstone for Bunker Hill Monument with Lafayette in a
procession that was more than a mile long, with 5,000 dining together for this
occasion.
56. Mason 1750-1806, Henry
Knox, Major General 1782, Comander in Chief of Army 1783, first Secretary
of War, first secretary-general of Society of the Cincinnati 1783-1799 & VP
1805.
57. Mason 1752-1818, George Rogers Clark, famous Brigadier General in
American Revolution, received approval of Governor Patrick Henry for expedition
into territory now known as Illinois, older brother of William Clark of famed
Lewis and Clark expedition (also a Mason), his leg was amputated, Abraham Lodge
No. 8, Louisville, buried with Masonic funeral.
58. Mason 1752-1825, John
Brooks, Governor MA, re-elected 7 years in succession, American Union Lodge and Washington
Lodge No. 10.
59. Mason 1752-1818, David
Humphreys, Lt. Colonel & Aide-de-Camp to Washington, negotiated
treaties, first US minster to Portugal, then minister to Spain 1796, became
horse breeder
60. Mason 1753-1799, Henry
Tazell, Senator VA, delegate to Constitutional Convention 1775-1776, Father
senator and Gov. VA, Williamsburg Lodge No. 6.
61. Mason 1754-1848, Henry Burbeck, founder of West Point, senior
warden of St. John’s Provincial Grand Lodge in Boston and signed
warrant for American Union Lodge, at battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and
wintered at Valley Forge, commanded the troops that took over New York from
British on Nov. 25, 1783; in 1792 est. school that would become West Point, and
when Corp of Engineers was created in 1801 he was its first chief.
62. Mason 1755-1843, Ebenezer
Mattoon, Officer in Revolution, Major General in War of 1812, congressman,
Pacific Lodge, Amherst, MA, master 1818-1819.
63. Mason 1755-1814, Nicholas
Gilman, member Continental Congress 1786-1788, member of first four
congresses, presidential elector 1793 & 1797, US senator NH.
64. Mason 1756-1743, Hodijah
Baylies, Lt. Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to Washington
65. Mason 1757-1796, Josep P. E. Capelle, surgeon in American
Revolution, came to America with Count Rochambeau, later served with Lafayette
as staff surgeon, one of incorporators of Delaware State Medical School, raised
master Mason on Lodge No. 14 at Wilmington on Aug. 21, 1783, and served as
master in 1786 and again in 1792, treasure from 1788-1791, on Aug.,6, 1789, one
of the first group of Delaware Masons to receive Royal Arch Degree.
66. Mason 1757-1806, James
Jackson, Brigadier General 1788, Governor of GA, killed Lt. Gov. Wells in
duel, Solomons Lodge No. 1.
67. Mason 1759-1796, Robert Burns, Scottish national poet, considered
a poetic genius, member St. David’s Lodge No. 174, raised Oct. 1, 1781, member of several other Lodges,
and wrote several Masonic poems, including “Farewell to the Brethren of St.
James Lodge, Tarbolton” and “The Freemasons’ Apron”.
68. Mason 1759-1820, Josiah Bartlett, physician, grand master of the
Grand Lodge of MA, member of Union Lodge at Danbury, CT (now No. 40), April 13, 1780, raised on May 2,
1780, charter member of King Solomon’s Lodge, Charleston, MA, Sept. 1783; Bartlett followed Paul Revere as
Grand Master of MA 1798, 1799, 1810.
69. Mason 1759-1841, Jonathan Gage, ship builder who sloop Polly was
stolen by British, congressman in Massachusetts, master of St. Peter’s Lodge in
Newburyport in 1791, help
organize the General Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, in 1798 was first grand
treasure of Grand Chapter in Massachusetts.
70. Mason 1760-1823, Jesse Franklin, Governor and U.S. Senator from
NC, 12-23-1793, became a member of Liberty Lodge No. 45, Wilkesborough, NC.
71. Mason 1762-1832, Samuel
Strong, General in War 1812, raised troops and hastened to relief of
garrison at Plattsburg, NY, received formal thanks from VT and NY, Dorchester
Lodge No. 1, Vergennes.
72. Mason 1762-18??, Elisha Cullen Dick, one of three doctors who
attend George Washington in his last illness, made a Mason in Lodge No. 2,
Philadelphia in 1779, one
of the organizers of Alexander Lodge No. 39, VA (later Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22), and senior warden 1783, master of Lodge 22 in 1793
at the laying of the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
73. Mason 1764-1812, Jaun Jose Castelli, Argentine patriot, lawyer,
and politician of indomitable courage, member of Lautaro Lodge.
74. Mason 1765-1826, Thomas
Todd, Justice U. S. Supreme Court, 1807-1826, part of KY statehood, Lodge
No. 24 of VA, became charter member of Lexington Lodge No. 1, Lexington, KY.
75. Mason 1769-1841, Martin
Chittenden, son of Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont 1813-1814,
graduate of Dartmouth 1789, member of Washington Lodge No. 7, Burlington, VT, one of petitioners for new Lodge named
Chittenden at Williston, VT, in honor of his father.
76. Mason 1770-1838, William
Clark of famed Lewis and Clark
expedition to Northwest Territory by appointed from President Jefferson in 1804,
younger brother of George Rogers Clark, made superintendent of Indian affairs
by President Monroe at St. Louis and kept position until death in 1838; member
of St. Louis Lodge No. 111 under
Pennsylvania charter, and buried with Masonic honors.
77. Mason 1773-1828, John
Geddes, Governor of SC 1818-20, congressman, Brigadier General, past master
of St. John’s Lodge No. 13, Charleston, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina in 1826.
78. Mason 1774-1834, Rufus
Easton, first postmaster West of the Mississippi River, first attorney
general of MO, entered through Roman Lodge No. 82 of NY and helped
organize Western Star Lodge No. 107, Kaskaskia, IL, when St. Louis Lodge No. 111 was organized
he was a charter member.
79. Mason 1774-1860, Littleton
W. Tazewell, Gov. VA, congressman, son of Henry Tazewell, Naphtali Lodge
No. 56.
80. Mason 1777-1849, Edmund
P. Gaines, Major General in War of 1812, arrested Aaron Burr, member of
Phoenix Lodge No. 8, Fayetteville, NC.
81. Mason 1781-1842, Newton
Cannon, Governor of TN, 1735-1839, congressman, Cumberland Lodge No. 8 and was
present when Grand Lodge of Tennessee was called in
1825.
82. Mason 1782-1867, Henry
Dodge, General and Indian fighter, U.S. Senator then Governor of Wisconsin,
12-6-1806 initiated into Western Star Lodge 107, Kaskaskia, IL, later affliated with Louisiana Lodge No. 109 (Missouri’s
first Lodge) at St. Genevieve, MO, served as master three years, installing
office at institution of Unity Lodge No. 6, Jackson, MO.
83. Mason 1784-1854, William
P. Duval, Governor of Territory of Florida 1822-1834 by President Monroe,
served in War of 1812, raised 8-13-1804 in Washington Lodge No. 6, Bardstown, KY, served senior warden in 1816.
84. Mason 1795-1858, John
P. Gaines, Governor of Oregon Territory 1850-53, congressman, member of
Multnomah Lodge No. 1, Oregon City, OR.
85. Mason 1800-1836, James
W. Fannin, Texas patriot and pioneer, Capt. of Texas forces, 1835 defeated
larger Mexican army near Bexar, General Houston made him colonel then inspector
general, executed by General Santa Anna with 357 other 3-27-1836, was senior
deacon to Holland Lodge No. 36, LA, when it was organized, later to become Holland No. 1 of Texas.
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