this refers to a post a way back but,
Sam Adams was primarily an organizer of agitation against the British/pro-Brit colonists. This is unlike his brother John who worked mostly through political action and dimplomacy. By the way, bother were Unitarians.
Also - Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he borrowed heavily from a rough draft written by Thomas Paine. I don't have the evidece right in front of me, but I will get it later.
pax yall
by the way - in a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson said that he would also be a Unitarian if there was a Unitarian church near his home.