18th-century American non-fiction writers

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War (1740–1801)

American author (1755-1831)

American grammarian and lawyer (1745-1826)

United States educator and writer

colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768)

Methodist bishop in America (1745-1816)

American army officer

Dutch-American navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer (1741-1784)

Mohegan leader and Christian minister