Any of the American founders for a start.
Phillis Wheatley
robert E lee
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i think that it was America
James Oglethorpe
Phillis Wheatley
New York state and city have always seemed to attract famous people even in the 1700s. Some of the famous people from there in the 1700s included William Alexander and William Blackhorse Astor Sr.
robert E lee
That they wanted to have more land
Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson
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i think that it was America
The most famous Earthquake is the Haiti Earthquake. That would partly depend on where you lived. To people in Lisbon, the most famous earthquake would be that which destroyed that Portuguese city in the early 1700s.
slavery in the 1700s
Robin Hood.
Try googling "1700s people"
James Oglethorpe