| 1 | Samuel | Adams | Protagonist. The man of Revolution. |
| | Thomas | Jefferson | 3rd US President. |
| | John | Adams | Samuel's 2nd cousin. |
| | Ben | Franklin | Founding Father of the US. |
| | George | III | King of UK. |
| | Thomas | Hutchinson | Governor of Massachusetts. |
| | George | Washington | 1st US President. |
| | Richard Henry | Lee | The author of Revolution. |
| 2 | Paul | Revere | An American silversmith. Adams's colleague. |
| | Joseph | Warren | Adams's closest confidant. |
| | John | Hancock | Adams's colleague. |
| | Jonas | Clarke | The reverend. Hancock's relative. |
| | Thomas | Gage | Royal governor and military commander. |
| | Lord | Dartmouth | Secretary of State for the colonies. |
| | William | Dawes | Revere's colleague. |
| 3 | Samuel | Adams SR. | Samuel's father. |
| | Mary Fifield | Adams | Samuel's mother. |
| | Joseph | Adams | Samuel's brother. |
| | George | Whitefield | The English Evangelical Preacher. |
| | Jonathan | Belcher | Massachusetts's Governor. |
| | William | Shirley | Belcher's successor. |
| 4 | Charles | Knowles | The admiral. |
| | Samuel | Checkley | New South Church Minister. |
| | Elizabeth | Checkley-Adams | Adams's wife. AKA: Betsy. |
| | Samuel | Adams III | Adams's son. |
| | | Greenleaf | The sheriff. |
| | Francis | Bernard | Head of the Detachment of Guards. |
| 5 | James | Otis JR. | Adams's mentor. |
| | Andrew | Oliver JR. | Adams's friend and Tax's
guarantor. |
| | George | Glenville | Prime minister of Great Britain. |
| | Abigail | Adams | John's wife. |
| | Harbottle | Dorr | A Boston selectman. |
| | Benjamin | Hallowell | A ship captain. |
| 6 | Ebenezer | Mackintosh | A shoe maker. |
| | Benjamin | Edes | The Gazette publisher. |
| | Thomas | Cushing | Son of Adams's former boss. |
| | Lord | Rockinghan | Grenville's successor. |
| | Patrick | Henry | One of the founding fathers of the US. |
| | John | Gill | A Gazette editor. |
| 7 | Christopher | Gadsten | Lt. Governor of South Carolina. |
| | Charles | Townshend | The new chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| | John | Dickinson | Governor of Delaware. |
| | William | Pitt | First Earl of Chatham. |
| | Dr. | Warren | Adams's lieutenant. |
| | Joseph | Hawley | Adams's lieutenant. |
| | James | Bowdoin | Adams's lieutenant. |
| | Samuel | Cooper | Adams's lieutenant. |
| 8 | Colonel | Dalrymple | Commander of the Land Forces. |
| | John Singleton | Copley | The painter of Bernard Portrait. |
| | Richard | Silvester | Boston inn keeper who had served for decades in the Royal Navy. |
| | John | Mein | Scottish printer. One of the holdouts. |
| | William | Molineux | Wealthy hardware merchant. |
| | James | Warren | Plymouth Patriot. Otis's brother-in-law. |
| | Mercy | Otis-Warren | James's wife. |
| 9 | William | Cooper | Long-time town clerk. |
| | Theopilus | Lillie | A shoe keeper. |
| | Ebenezer | Richardson | Lillie's neighbor. |
| | Christopher | Seider | The victim of Richardson's shooting incident. |
| | Thomas | Preston | The Regional Captain. |
| | Josiah | Quincy JR. | John Adams's colleague. |
| | Robert Treat | Paine | Molineux's colleague. A lawyer. |
| | Thomas | Young | A physician. Adams's colleague. |
| | Jonathan | Sewall | Attorney general. |
| | Arthur | Lee | A Virginia-based physician. |
| 11 | Francis | Rotch | The ship owner. |
| | John | Montagu | An admiral. |
| | William | Cooper | Town clerk. |
| | John | Rowe | Part owner of one of the four ships. |
| | Alexander | Wedderburn | British Solicitor General. |
| 12 | Daniel | Leonard | A wealthy Taunton Lawyer. |
| | Silas | Deane | Adams's longtime correspondent. |
| | Richard Henry | Lee | President of Continental Congress. |
| | Thomas | Mifflin | A Pennsylvania delegate. |
| | Benjamin | Rush | A doctor. Adams's new colleague. |
| | Gadsden | | The Sam Adams of the South. |
| | Charles | Thomson | The Sam Adams of Philadelphia. |
| | Peyton | Randolph | The new chairman of Continental Congress. |
| | Jacob | Duche | An Episcopalian minister. |
| | Samuel | Dyer | One of Adams's men who was caught. |
| 13 | King | Hancock | The swindler. |
