Possible Clues:

• Colonist Tom
• 'Age of Reason' writer
• "These are the times that try men's souls" writer
• Thomas who wrote 'Common Sense'
• Patriotic pamphleteer
• "The Age of Reason" writer
• Thomas __, author of The Age of Reason (1794)
• 'The Age of Reason' writer
• Patriot who said 'Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice'
• Early American pamphleteer