[b]Name:[/b] Hercules Mulligan

[b]Place:[/b] New York City

[b]Bio:[/b]

Hercules Mulligan was born in 1740 in Ireland. Six years later, his family moved to America and settled in the colony of New York. The young Mulligan studied at King's College in Manhattan. After school, Mulligan opened his own business -- a tailor's shop -- that caters to wealthy members of colonial New York. In the influx of immigrants from Europe, Mulligan has found his business booming as many agents of the crown settle into New York.

Unbeknownst to anyone else, Mulligan is in fact a member of the Sons of Liberty and the New York Committee of Correspondence, two very important organizations that sought to unite the colonies in their struggle for greater representation and less taxes from the British crown. Now, with the changing weather and the refugee crisis the situation is immensely changed, although the Sons of Liberty and the CofC stick to their goals and Mulligan continues to assist them wherever possible.


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[b]Name:[/b] Sir Thomas Bennett 

[b]Place:[/b] South Carolina

[b]Bio:[/b]

Born in 1729, Thomas Bennett came from a prominent English merchant family. Thomas' father had relocated to America to run the family's business in Virginia. The Bennett family thrived for most of Thomas' childhood, but bad investments by his father bankrupted their family business and turned the elder Bennett into an alcoholic. In 1732, he committed suicide and left Thomas responsible for his mother and three siblings. Thomas, along with his brother and two sisters, worked for the wealthy gentry of the Virginia tidewater area to make money to support themselves. Thomas was still a boy when he learned the easy ways to cater to the ruling elite of Virginia society.

At the age of eighteen he began reading law under the tutelage of Victor Randolph, one of the top lawyers in Virginia. In 1754, twenty-five year old Thomas struck out for himself as a lawyer. He soon used his connections with the first families of Virginia to get work. By the time he turned thirty, Bennett was perhaps even more well known that his mentor Randolph.

In 1760, Bennett was employed by the mighty Fairfax Family to handle a sensitive matter. Lord Fairfax's youngest son had become involved with a woman of ill character and had fathered a child with said woman. For a fee, Bennett used his connections in the state to have the woman and child quietly sent west to the Piedmont Region and a lonely planter who had longed for his own family. For this service, Lord Fairfax honored Bennett by pulling strings in England and granting him a knighthood.

Now in 1770, as the entire world has been turned upside down, the now wealthy and successful Sir Thomas finds himself in South Carolina just outside Charles Town. With the influx of wealthy nobles, there are to be many in need of his discreet talents.