JIGSAW GENS

Septennials — A Legacy of Defiance & Virtue

The Septennials (“Vandalians” or “Early Planters”) nourished deep roots of the American Revolution’s inception

Anthony Eichberger
ILLUMINATION
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7 min readApr 11, 2024

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It can be understandably easy for many people to mix up or conflate which historical figure — or modern-day person — belongs to which generation. To help remedy these misconceptions, I’ve created Jigsaw Gens.” Initially, I launched the series as an efficient way to differentiate America’s main generational cohorts of the modern era.

Those generations can be divided up, as follows…

Hemingrebels | GI-Gens | Traditionalists | Baby Boomers

GenXers | Millennials | Zoomers | Alphas

Toward the end of 2023, I began exploring age cohorts that can be identified when looking back before the Nineteenth Century. Those nine generations have included:

Missionaries | Stowegressives | Golden Renegades

Redeemers | Transcendentals | Unimpressionists

Madisonians | Goodpublicans | Liberty Lords

So who came before the Liberty Lords?

They would be the youngest generation who didn’t fully live through the Revolutionary War, whom I have…

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Anthony Eichberger
ILLUMINATION

Gay. Millennial. Pagan/Polytheist. Disabled. Rural-Born. Politically-Independent. Fashion-Challenged. Rational Egoist. Survivor. #AgriWarrior (Deal With It!)