These cards are, as the name implies, plain. (I've got plenty more colorful postcards, but I don't have them scanned yet.) In any case, I thought the postage was interesting. This starts off with some Patriot postage.
Robert Morris was the "financier of the Revolution."
Charles Carroll was a signer on the Declaration of Independence and the only Catholic among the signers.
John Hancock was the most famous signer. He did his signature large enough so that "King George III could see it." Keep in mind, signing the Declaration would have been a death sentence had the war gone the other way.
Samuel Adams was an important "political philosopher" and laid the groundwork for the Revolution. (Yes, I'm going to Wikipedia for all of this.)
George Wythe was a signer of the Declaration and a member of the Continental Congress.
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