Hall - Abolitionist. Founder of "Black Freemasonry." 1737-1809 - Thomas Paine - Wrote "Common Sense" in 1776 & "Rights of Man" in 1791. 1741-1815 - John Murray - Founder of Universalism in America. Husband of Judith Sargent Murray (qv). 1743-1826 - Thomas Jefferson - Wrote the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.