Oral, John Winthrop

John Winthrop : John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a prominent figure among the Puritan founders of New England. Winthrop was one of the best educated of the Puritan colonists, had great leadership skills and wisdom, and was known for being very religious. Although his strictness did result in a few mistakes, in general he is respected and admired for making the best decisions to help allow the colony to survive in the New World

Thomas Paine : Thomas Paine, (born January 29, 1737, Thetford, Norfolk, England—died June 8, 1809, New York, New York, U.S.), English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose Common Sense pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Other works that contributed to his reputation as one of the greatest political propagandists in history were Rights of Man, a defense of the French Revolution and of republican principles; and The Age of Reason, an exposition of the place of religion in society.

Daniel Boone : Daniel Boone, born November 2, 1734 in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania and died September 26, 1820 in Defiance, Missouri, is an American explorer, pioneer of the colonization of North America, whose exploits on "The Frontier" made one of the folk heroes of the United States. Boone is famous for exploring and colonizing what has become Kentucky,

Kit Carson: Kit Carson, byname of Christopher Houston Carson, (born December 24, 1809, Madison County, Kentucky, U.S.—died May 23, 1868, Fort Lyon, Colorado), American frontiersman, trapper, soldier, and Indian agent who made an important contribution to the westward expansion of the United States. His career as an Indian fighter earned him both folk hero status through its aggrandizement in the dime novels of his day and condemnation from some later revisionist historians as an agent of the displacement and decimation of the native peoples of the West.

JF Cooper : Born September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, and died September 14, 1851 in Cooperstown, New York, is an American writer. He is the author of the book: the last of Mohicans. Part of his work is based on the stories of Native Americans in North America. His novels are set in the territories of the Iroquois of the Six Nations that his father had helped to annex.

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