For Serious Tourists We Recommend The London Pass Choose 1, 2, 3 or 6 consecutive days - It's your passport to London! You get FREE entry to over 60 of London's top attractions as well as passes for travel on public transport including buses, tubes and trains. HOME WHERE TO STAY HOTEL SPECIALS RESERVATIONS TOURING LONDON LONDON EVENTS ATTRACTIONS/TICKETS THEATRE TICKETS SIGHTSEEING MUSEUMS SHOPPING NIGHTLIFE (21+) GETTING ABOUT RESTAURANTS WEATHER LINKS Explore Shakespeare's London Dickens' London The American Connection Museums & Historic Houses Churches with Character Wandering Wheels The American Connection Many of America's founding fathers were adventurers, pioneers and pilgrims - people who pinned their hopes on the promise of the New World. Whether they left England hoping to find their fortunes or their freedom, the names of some of the best known, along with others who helped to shape the future of the nation, can be found in the table below. Click on each name for a short biography of that person or click right to go directly to sites associated with them. BIOGRAPHIES ASSOCIATED LONDON SITES John Harvard The Harvard Chapel Captain John Smith St. Sepulchre's Holborn St. Mary le Bow The Pilgrim Fathers The Libery of the Clink St. Bride's Fleet Street Benjamin Franklin Franklin's London Home St. Bride's Fleet Street William Penn All Hallows Barking Penn & the Old Bailey George Washington St. Dunstan-in-the-West If you prefer, look for links with original British colonies. The relevant points in longer texts will be marked with a US Flag. FIRST COLONIES CULTURAL LINKS IN CITY CHURCHES Virginia St. Bride's Fleet Street St. Sepulchre's Holborn Massachusetts St. Bride's Fleet Street St. Saviour's, Southwark Maryland St. Giles-in-the-Fields St. Dunstan-in-the-West Pennsylvania All Hallows Barking Copyright © Jan Collie 2002 Published by permission of the author. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.