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This portrait depicts Pennsylvania-born Stephen "Don Esteban" Minor, who joined the Spanish Army in Louisiana in 1779.

Connecticut native John Chandler received this military commission in the colonial militia in 1771 and later served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

John Wilkes was a satirist turned politician who published the satirical newspaper, The North Briton.

“GR,” short for Georgius Rex or George the King, was often used on ceramics, including mugs, jugs, and chamber pots.

Prints and needlework pictures, like this one, commemorated George Washington's memory following his death on December 14, 1799.

This small portrait of Mary McIlvaine Bloomfield, who may have voted in New Jersey in 1803, was painted around 1778 by Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale.

British Army Lieutenant James Grant carried this basket-hilted backsword while serving as an officer in the 77th Regiment of Foot in America during the French and Indian War.

Revolutionary War soldier Joshua Warren, who was born in Biddeford, present-day Maine, in 1758, owned this redware mug.

Colonel John Bull of Pennsylvania wrote to General Thomas Wharton about preparations for a council with the Mohawk, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Muncie, Quinault, and Nanticoke people.

This 75-piece Revolutionary War toy set, made by Louis Marx and Company in 1957, allowed children to recreate momentous battles and pivotal moments that shaped the founding of America.