| New Jersey (Bergen County), Fort Lee — Thomas Paine — 1737-1809 |
| | Author-Soldier
“Common Sense” “American Crisis”
January 10, 1776 December 19, 1776
Thomas Paine volunteered for the Continental Army. He marched to Amboy, New Jersey, located off the tip of Staten Island where the British began the invasion of New York. He arrived before the first 9,3000 Redcoats landed and stayed until the fighting went north. Paine then went to Fort Lee where General Nathaniel Greene appointed him as one . . . — Map (db m7655) |
| New Jersey (Burlington County), Bordentown — Thomas Paine |
| | Thomas Paine, Pamphleteer for American Independence, bought this house in 1783, and lived in it periodically until his death in 1809. — Map (db m5337) |
| New Jersey (Burlington County), Bordentown — Thomas Paine Monument |
| | Thomas Paine (1739 - 1809)
Father of the American Revolution
(Northeast face of Monument Base):
Paine's words and deeds put the concepts of independence, equality, democracy, abolution of slavery, representative government and a constitution with a bill of rights on the American agenda.
(Southwest face of Monument Base):
"I had rather see my horse button in his own stable, or eating the grass of Bordentown, than see all the pomp and show of Europe." - Letter from . . . — Map (db m5176) |
| New Jersey (Morris County), Morristown — Thomas Paine — 1737 – 1809 |
| | English by birth French citizen by decree American by adoption Author of The American Crisis Rights of Man The Age of Reason Your presence may remind Congress (and the people) of your past services to this country. George Washington Left side of monument: Washington’s sword would have been wielded in vain had it not been supported by the pen of Paine. History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine. John Adams The citizens of the United States cannot look back upon the . . . — Map (db m8551) |
| New York (New York County), New York — Thomas Paine Death House |
| | Thomas Paine
Born—1737
Died—1809
On this site
I believe in one God and no more
All mankind are my brethren
The world is my country
To do good is my religion — Map (db m22098) |
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| Maryland (Kent County), Kennedyville — Brig. Gen. John Cadwalader — 1742–1786 |
| | Commander Penna Troops. Served at Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. Incensed at the cabal against Washington he wounded General Conway in a duel. Lived nearby and served in General Assembly of Maryland from Kent County. Buried in Shrewsbury Churchyard. His epitaph was written by Thomas Paine. — Map (db m3043) |
| Pennsylvania (Lancaster County), Lancaster — Bailey's Printshop |
| | Francis Bailey, official printer to both the U.S. Congress and the Commonwealth, operated a printing office on this site from 1773 to 1780. Here, he produced many historic imprints including Thomas Paine's "Crisis No. 4." — Map (db m5159) |
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| New Jersey (Gloucester County), National Park — Brigadier General Hugh Mercer |
| | Brigadier General Hugh Mercer Soldier – Patriot – Physician for whom Fort Mercer was named in the spring of 1777 Born 1725, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Died Jan. 12, 1777, Princeton, N.J. Presented October 25, 1970 to the County of Gloucester by members and friends of the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia of which General Mercer became a member in 1757. Carl Lindborg Artist • Sculptor “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine “The . . . — Map (db m13406) |
| Virginia (Stafford County), Falmouth — N 36 — Moncure Daniel Conway |
| | Nearby to the northwest is the childhood home of renowned abolitionist, writer, and lecturer Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907). In 1838 his family moved into this Federal-style house. Conway graduated from Dickinson College in 1849 and Harvard Divinity School in 1854 and became outspoken in the abolitionist movement. During the Civil War, Conway lived in Cincinnati, Ohio and traveled east in 1862 to lead his family’s slaves to freedom in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Conway moved to London in 1863 and . . . — Map (db m1676) |
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| New Jersey (Bergen County), Fort Lee — Soldiers of the American Revolution — - 1776 – |
| | (Front of Monument):
In commemoration of the Soldiers of the American Revolution - 1776 – Erected by the State of New Jersey under the auspices of the Fort Lee Revolutionary Monument Association - 1908 –
(Left of Monument):
“Rebelmen”
These traprocks, aged two hundred million years, stand eternally, natural monuments towering high for the rebels and their cause for rebels without cause can quickly fall. See to it now your voices rise in peace . . . — Map (db m7348) |
| Ohio (Greene County), Yellow Springs — 6-29 — Moncure Daniel Conway / The Conway Colony |
| | [Side A:] Moncure Daniel Conway
Moncure Daniel Conway was born on March 17, 1832 in Stafford County, Virginia, the son of Walker Peyton and Margaret Daniel Conway. His father was a wealthy slaveholder and prominent state legislator and county court justice official while his mother, who opposed slavery, introduced her son to abolitionism. Conway graduated from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania in 1849 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1854. Despite his southern aristocratic . . . — Map (db m13651) |
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| Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County), Philadelphia — The Siege of Fort Mifflin — November 10 to 15, 1777 |
| | Report from the British Side: Journal of Captain John Montresor November 10th: We expressed our batteries against Mud Island Fort, the whole consisting of two 12 pounders, six 24 pounders, guns and one 13 inch mortar for throwing pounder shot and carcasses. Rebels from two batteries fired five guns, all silenced by noon, except one which was not silenced at dark. 11th: A west, northwest wind and as cold as in the depth of winter. A white frost and the ice one inch thick. Our . . . — Map (db m12447) |
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