Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

Others listed at new addresses are the Richard T. Olerichs, the Joseph Aderholds Jr., the Henri De La Chapelles, the John Berteros and Dr. and Mrs. Egerton Crispin, the John Armisteads, the Allen Chases, the Howard Lockies, the Thomas Lockies, and Anthony Longinotti.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

Well-known proponents of this theology are Greg Boyd, Clark Pinnock, Thomas Jay Oord, William Hasker, and John E. Sanders.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

" There are several such books in the New Testament apocrypha, including the Acts of Thomas, the Acts of Andrew, and the Acts of John.

Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

John Wesley, along with a priest from the Anglican Church and two other elders, operating under the ancient Alexandrian custom, ordained Thomas Coke a " superintendent ", although Coke embraced the title " bishop ".

A hemispherical cup anemometer of the type invented in 1846 by John Thomas Romney Robinson

A simple type of anemometer, invented ( 1846 ) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

* 1934 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell ( b. 1854 )

In this troubled period Thomas Watson dedicated his Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love to Oxford, noting that the Earl had taken a personal interest in the work.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University performed astronomical calculations representing the state of the art in computing.

* 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U. S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

Songs recorded by Hurt have been covered by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Beck, Doc Watson, John McCutcheon, Taj Mahal, Bruce Cockburn, David Johansen, Bill Morrissey, Gillian Welch and Guthrie Thomas.

* 1856 – Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician ( d. 1922 )

The cases of Bishop of St. David's Thomas Watson in 1699 and of Dean of York William Cockburn in 1841 were particularly notable.

The chief architect of the S / 360 was Gene Amdahl, and the project was managed by Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr.

Thomas J. Watson was the only son of Thomas and Jane Fulton White Watson.

His eldest son, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., joined the United States Army Air Corps where he became a bomber pilot.

Its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is named the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, although the IBM plant in the neighboring city of Endicott has since downsized drastically.

A month before his death, Watson handed over the reins of the company to his oldest son, Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

# Thomas Watson, Jr. succeeded his father as IBM chairman and later served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Jimmy Carter.

He was considered Roosevelt's strongest supporter in the business community. The gravesite of Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Thomas Watson Sr. was interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York in 1956.

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

The document says no, but quotes his son and then IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., at the annual IBM stockholders meeting, April 28, 1953, as speaking about the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, which it identifies as " the company's first production computer designed for scientific calculations ".

* February 17 – Thomas J. Watson, American computer pioneer ( d. 1956 )

* September 26 – Thomas E. Watson, American politician and senator ( b. 1856 )

Alcott served as a pallbearer along with Louis Agassiz, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

** Thomas Parran, Sr., American politician ( d. 1955 )

* Thomas Wentworth Sr., 1st Earl of Strafford of England ( 1593 – 1641 ), statesman ( specifically Member of Parliament and future Lord deputy and lieutenant of Ireland )

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.

Buddenbrooks ( 1901 ), by Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ), chronicles the moral decay of a rich family through its declines, material and spiritual, in the course of four generations, beginning with the patriarch Johann Buddenbrook Sr. and his son, Johann Buddenbrook Jr., who are typically successful German businessmen ; each is a reasonable man of solid character.

* Thomas Howard, Sr. ( born 1954 ), former American football linebacker who played nine seasons

The Borough Council is currently run by President Thomas J. Murray Sr.

Other significant figures in the early history of the company were Charles F. Kettering, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Edward A.

* Bishop Ted Thomas, Sr. ( 1967 -), Pentecostal African-American preacher, pastor of New Community Temple Church of God in Christ

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. attended the Inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson at the President's personal invitation and sat in the front row at Washington, D. C. Harvey founded the first Dodge Brothers Dealership in the World.

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. ( 1898-1977 ) One of the oldest families in America and Virginia dating from a. d. 1584 in what was the Ronanok Colony, the first Dodge Brothers Dealer in the America, in 1969 Hurricane Camile he lost everything and is quoated Worldwide as saying " It's GODs WIll!

* 1850s Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., grandfather of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and his brother Jesse Thomas Johnson, set up a cattle business in Johnson City.

According to the 1955 book, Zeb's Black Baby, by Samuel Thomas Peace Sr .:

, members of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders ( with their term end dates and committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Freeholder Director William Whelan ( 2011 ; Finance ), Deputy Freeholder Director James A. Dunkins ( 2011 ; Health ), Samuel L. Fiocchi, Sr. ( 2013 ; Public Works ), Jane Jannarone ( 2011 ; Public Affairs, Cultural & History ), Carl W. Kirstein ( 2013 ; Public Property & Personnel ) and Thomas Sheppard ( 2012 ; Agriculture ).

* Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., ed., The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001 )

* Byron W. Woodson, Sr., A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson ( Praeger, 2001 )

The town started when Thomas Edwards Sr. bought the land from Judge Crockett in 1867.

Thomas Fitch eventually sold a large parcel of property to William Samuel Flemming Sr. in 1817.

The early settlers of the area were: Reuben Moss, George Robards, George Eakins, Bennett Sandefur, Jordan Moss, Enoch Spencer, Thomas Reidout, Ben Wall, Nathan Smith, T. W. Royster, James McMullin, Samuel McMullin, Sr.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Gosnold was first settled in 1641, the year of purchase of the islands by Thomas Mayhew, Sr.