B. 1717 Molineux doesn't usually make the list of well-known revolutionaries, mostly because he didn't live to see the outbreak of the revolution (he died in 1774). He was, however, one of the major Whig agitators in the years before the war started - right up there with Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. Molineux was a British-born merchant and supporter of the Patriot cause. As far as revolutionaries go, that makes him a bit of an outlier - British-born Colonists tended to be Loyalists. He was Anglican as well - and those congregations were decidedly British leaning.