 Patience Lovell Wright, America's first female sculptor, was creating wax busts in King George's court in England.Later, however, Bordentown became a rabble-rousing hotbed.In addition to Joseph Borden's son (also named Joseph Borden), who became a colonel during the war, patriots Francis Hopkinson (a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence), Colonel Kirkbride, Colonel Oakey Hoagland and Thomas Paine resided in the area.