* James Armistead, America's first spy ; an African American who provided the information to the Continental Army that Cornwallis was headed to Yorktown in 1781.

Lewis A. Armistead, Richard B. Garnett, and James L. Kemper, was on the right flank of the assault.

During this tour he recognized and embraced James Armistead Lafayette, a free negro who took his last name to honor him ; while in Yorktown, the story of the event was reported by the Richmond Enquirer.

Richard Barnes Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); son of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); brother of George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ), and William Temple Thomson Mason ( 1782 – 1862 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ) and James Murray Mason ( 1798 – 1871 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); and second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ).

Facsimile of Marquis de Lafayette's certificate of commendation of James Armistead Lafayette, 1784

James Armistead Lafayette ( December 10, 1760 – August 9, 1830 ) was the first African American double spy.

Although the Virginia Assembly passed a manumission act in 1782 allowing for the freedom of any slave by his or her owner, James remained the property of William Armistead ( A 1783 law specifically targeted at freeing slaves whose owners had used them as substitutes for army service in exchange for their liberty did not apply to James ).

However, in 1786, with the support of William Armistead ( then a member of the House of Delegates ) and carrying a 1784 testimonial of his service from the Marquis de Lafayette, James petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom ( The facsimile of the letter of commendation can be viewed on the Lafayette College website ,< ref >

At Yorktown, James Armistead, a slave who had joined Lafayette's service with his master's permission, crossed into Cornwallis ' lines in the guise of an escaped slave, and was recruited by Cornwallis to return to American lines as a spy.

Cato appears again at the end of the series when he does not tell on an African American Patriot spy, James Armistead, whose spying was crucial to the American victory at Yorktown, which ends the war for American independence.

* James Armistead

James Murray Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); nephew of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ) and John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ); son of John Mason ( 1766 – 1849 ) and Anna Maria Murray Mason ( 1776 – 1857 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ), George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ), and Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ); and first cousin thrice removed of Charles O ' Conor Goolrick.

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick's skull ( Photographer: James Lafayette, c. 1885 – 1900 )

* 1793 – James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College ( d. 1862 )

* 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.

St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square, north of the White House, and built in 1815 – 1816, is the church nearest to the White House, and its services have been attended at least once by nearly every president since James Madison ( 1809 – 1817 ).

* James Lafayette, pseudonym of James Stack Lauder ( 1853 – 1923 ), Irish portrait photographer

The names of the known dead were all listed with hometowns in the New York Times, and included these names from Berrien County: Lester Hancock, Arthur Harper, William P. Hayes, Benjamin McCranie, James M. McMillan, Shelly Lloyd Webb, Joe Wheeler, Jim M. Boyett, Lafayette Gaskins, Bennie E. Griner, Robert J. Hancock, George H. Hutto, Thomas J. Simmons, Max Easters, G. Bruce Faircloth, Thomas, H. Holland, Ralph Knight, William McMillan, John Franklin Moore, Wiliam Zeigler, Thomas W. Sirmons, Charley Railey, and Tillman W. Robinson.

Youngest son, James Madison Porter, was Secretary of War under President John Tyler & founder of Lafayette College in Easton.

* Gaines, James R. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and their Revolutions.

In 1882, on April 3, the outlaw Jesse James was killed at his home, originally located at 1318 Lafayette, now sited next to The Patee House.

In 1824, President James Monroe invited Lafayette to the United States as the " nation's guest "; during the trip, he visited all twenty-four states.

James Monroe secured passports for Adrienne from Connecticut, which had granted the entire Lafayette family citizenship.

President James Monroe invited Lafayette to visit the United States from August 1824 to September 1825, in part to celebrate the nation's 50th anniversary.

James McHenry, whom Lafayette considered a good friend, built a country seat on 95 acres and named it Fayetteville in his honor.

James Lafayette Dickey ( February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997 ) was an American poet and novelist.

James Norman Hall ( 1887 – 1951 ) of the Lafayette Escadrille, 1917

The story of the Lafayette Escadrille has been adapted into three films: The Legion of the Condemned ( 1928 ) a William A. Wellman film ; Lafayette Escadrille ( 1958 ), a Wellman film starring Tab Hunter, and Flyboys ( 2006 ), directed by Tony Bill and starring James Franco.

The exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille are also captured in several works of historical fiction including: Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall ( 1929 ), To the Last Man by Jeffrey Shaara, Valiant Volunteers by Terry L. Johnson ( 2005 ), An Ace Minus One by Timothy Morrisroe ( 2006 ), and Kickapoo by Thomas Wilson ( 2006 ).

* Riley, Franklin Lafayette, " Alcorn, James Lusk " in Dictionary of American Biography Volume 1 ( 1928 ).

James Madison was also influenced by the Declaration while drafting the Bill of Rights ( completed September 1787, approved 1789 ), as was the Marquis de Lafayette in voting the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( 1789 ).

* Gaines, James R. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and their Revoltuions.

Milestones among feedback, or " closed-loop " automatic control devices, include the temperature regulator of a furnace attributed to Drebbel, circa 1620, and the centrifugal flyball governor used for regulating the speed of steam engines by James Watt in 1788.

The RGB color model is based on the Young – Helmholtz theory of trichromatic color vision, developed by Thomas Young and Hermann Helmholtz, in the early to mid nineteenth century, and on James Clerk Maxwell's color triangle that elaborated that theory ( circa 1860 ).

On one of his trips to Europe, circa 1820, he met the Irish physician Robert James Graves.

Portrait of Asquith by Sir James Guthrie ( artist ) | James Guthrie, circa 1924 – 1928

Photo of Steve Caton by James Bradford, circa 1996

After 86 years, James K. Shook School burned to the ground circa May 1976.

Although Inez was not incorporated as a city until 1942, the vicinity was first settled circa 1810 by James Ward and was named Arminta Ward's Bottom.

* Marquita L. James, Blacks in Roosevelt, Long Island New York, circa: 1985.

James Nasmyth circa 1844 by Hill & Adamson.

Abram ’ s Counsel to Sarai ( watercolor circa 1896 – 1902 by James Tissot )

James Brudenell on horseback, by Francis Grant ( artist ) | Francis Grant, circa 1841

James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan | James Brudenell on horseback, by Francis Grant ( artist ) | Francis Grant, circa 1841

James Martineau by Elliott & Fry, circa 1860s

It was initially drafted by George Mason circa May 20, 1776 ; James Madison assisted him with the section on religious freedom.

Their marriage produced one son, James ( b. circa 1815 ).

However, that point of view came under substantial criticism circa in the wake of various security scandals including mutual fund timing episodes and, in particular, the backdating of option grants as documented by University of Iowa academic Erik Lie and reported by James Blander and Charles Forelle of the Wall Street Journal.

Portrait of James VI by John de Critz, circa 1606

* James II of Cyprus ( circa 1438 – 1473 ), Titular King of Jerusalem

Chalk and pencil sketch of Jack Sheppard in Newgate Prison, attributed to Sir James Thornhill, circa 1723

Addington was built by the emancipist James Stewart, circa 1800.

* James T. Thompson, Mayor of Birkenhead, England, circa 1899