Founding Fathers

Founding Father Abraham Baldwin was born on November 22, 1754, in Guilford, Connecticut Colony.

John Adams was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, on October 30, 1735.

America’s longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall, was born on September 24, 1755, in Germantown, Virginia. 

On June 10, 1840, Senator Daniel Webster submitted a resolution to the US Congress recommending that the US issue stamps.

On October 6, 1723, a 17-year-old Benjamin Franklin first arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Roger Sherman, the only man in US history to sign America’s four most important documents; the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, died on July 23, 1793.

On January 1, 1932, the US Post Office Department issued a set of 12 stamps honoring the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth.

Founding Father George Mason IV was born on December 11, 1725, in Fairfax County, Virginia.

John Adams was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, on October 30, 1735.