Samuel Adams – political writer, tax collector, cousin of John Adams, fire warden. Founded the Sons Of Liberty, Boston
Joseph Allicocke – One of the leaders of the Sons in New York, and possibly of African ancestry.
Benedict Arnold – businessman, later General in the Continental Army and then the British Army
Timothy Bigelow – blacksmith, Worcester
John Brown – business leader of Providence, Rhode Island
John Crane – carpenter, colonel in command of the 3rd Continental Artillery Regiment, Braintree
Benjamin Edes – journalist/publisher Boston Gazette, Boston
Christopher Gadsden – merchant, Charleston, South Carolina
John Hancock – merchant, smuggler, fire warden, Boston
Patrick Henry – lawyer, Virginia
John Lamb – trader, New York City
Alexander McDougall – captain of privateers, New York City
Hercules Mulligan – tailor, spy under George Washington for the Continental Army, friend of Alexander Hamilton
James Otis – lawyer, Massachusetts
Matthew Phripp – a merchant, chairman of the Norfolk committee of safety, prominent Free Mason, and colonel of the militia. Norfolk, Virginia
Charles Willson Peale – portrait painter and saddle maker, Annapolis, Maryland
Paul Revere – silversmith, fire warden, Boston
Benjamin Rush – physician, Philadelphia
Isaac Sears – captain of privateers, New York City
Haym Salomon – financial broker, New York and Philadelphia
James Swan – financier, Boston
Isaiah Thomas – printer, Boston then Worcester, first to read Declaration of Independence in Massachusetts
Charles Thomson – tutor, secretary, Philadelphia
Joseph Warren – doctor, soldier, Boston
Thomas Young – doctor, Boston
Marinus Willett – cabinetmaker, soldier, New York
(Last update: 2018-11-10)