Principal Characters and Original Cast
- John Adams – William Daniels
- Benjamin Franklin – Howard Da Silva
- John Dickinson – Paul Hecht
- Edward Rutledge – Clifford David (replaced by John Cullum )
- Stephen Hopkins - Roy Poole
- Thomas Jefferson – Ken Howard
- John Hancock – David Ford
- Richard Henry Lee – Ronald Holgate
- Martha Jefferson – Betty Buckley
- Abigail Adams – Virginia Vestoff
- Charles Thomson – Ralston Hill
- Andrew McNair – William Duell
- Lewis Morris - Ronald Kross
- Dr. Lyman Hall - Johnathan Moore
- Rev. John Witherspoon - Edmund Lyndeck
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