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Timothy Matlack, by Charles Willson Peale, from life, 1826.
Credit: Independence National Historical Park
Disowned by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1765, Timothy Matlack helped form the Society of Free Quakers in 1781, and was a leading radical in state politics. For this 1826 portrait by Charles Willson Peale, the 86-year-old Matlack insisted on wearing a liberty cap to show his life-long identification with the rights of the common man.