PATRIOTS AND PATENTEES

1. PATRIOTS AND PATENTEES By Howard M. Peters Peters, Verny, Jones & Schmitt, L.L.P. 425 Sherman Avenue #230 Palo Alto, CA 94306 & Sally B. Peters Information Center PARC Inc. 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 A Comparison Of Some Revolutionaries Who Fought To Create the United States Of America And U.S Patentees And Their Ancestors

2. Part 1 • The U.S. Patent System and its limitations

3. Part 2 • The Genealogical Societies and their limitations • The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution • Sons of the American Revolution • Sons and Daughters of the American Colonists

4. Part 3 • A comparison and correlations of Revolutionary War service and U.S. Patentees and their ancestors • The surprise connections and their stories

5. The U.S. Patent System and its Limitations • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office • Colonial Patents prior to 1790 • 1790 Constitution Article I Section 8 • 1836 complete revision of U.S. Patent laws • U.S. Patent Office building in Washington burned down • New numbering system and models • Now approaching 7,000,000

6. The Genealogical Societies and their Limitations The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution 1776 D Street NW Washington, DC 20006-5303 Main Phone: (202) 628-1776 Constitution Hall Event Information: (202) 628-4780 *This is the only number for event information www.DAR.org

8. The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution 1000 S. 4th Street Louisville, KY 40203 Main Phone: (502) 589-1776 Fax: (502) 589-1671 www.SAR.org

10. Sons of the Revolution Library 600 South Central Avenue Glendale, CA 91204 Main Phone: (818) 240-1775 www.srcalifornia.com

12. Sons and Daughters of the American Colonists 3917 Heritage Hills Drive, #104 Minneapolis, MN 55437 Main Phone: (612) 893-9747

13. Patentees Residents Mostly white Mostly male Educated Of some means Patriots Residents Mostly white Mostly male Mostly uneducated A rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight Comparison and Correlation of Revolutionary War Service and U.S. Patentees and their Ancestors

14. First U.S. Patent (unnumbered)Samuel HopkinsJuly 31, 1790 • Manufacture of Potash and Pearlash • Patent signed by President George Washington • Hopkins was a Quaker, and probably a Pacifist • True identity was in dispute for years, until 1990’s • Entrepreneur shunned by Quaker brethren • No record of Revolutionary War service, so far • Went to Canada to obtain rights • A cousin (once removed) lived in North Maryland • Johns Hopkins was a shrewd investor in the B&O Railroad, not married, and left his $7,000,000 fortune to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1876

16. Robert “Quicksilver Bob” Fulton

17. The “Clermont”

18. Samuel F.B. (Finley Breeze) Morse

23. Alexander Graham Bell

28. Samuel Colt

30. Eli Whitney

35. 1847 Colt “Whitneyville” Walker

36. Abraham Lincoln

40. Mary Kies

41. Norbert Rillieux

44. Future Research Planned Guggenheim Fellowship Application www.gf.org Inventors in the National Inventors Hall of Fame www.invent.org United States Patent and Trademark Office www.uspto.gov

45. Acknowledgements • ACS Division of Chemistry and the Law • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office • Daughters of the American Revolution • Sons of the American Revolution • Justin Kirk Houser, Centre Co. PA, Genealogist • Sally B. Peters • Daeron Katz: Silent Planet Productions, Graphics