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Since your interests are the founding fathers, you're probably in luck, as an excessive amount of work has been done on them. Many of their personal correspondences were kept, personal libraries maintained, and there's extensive historical work on them.
If any, the founding father who will most likely have philosophical works will be Thomas Jefferson. Looking at his personal library, it doesn't seem he had read Kant directly, but he had a book (published 1801) which explained Kant's philosophy. I also see Baxter, Locke, Hume, Berkeley in his collection. So it doesn't seem like Kant had an influence on the founding fathers, he was late to the party for that.
In any case, there seems to be decent historical work 1 and plenty of compilations of letters 2 3, books explicating their philosophy, and the like. I would be careful to avoid books with an obvious political slant and stick to academic texts (i.e., written by a person holding a PhD).
As far as the example with Samuel Clarke, any detailed, academic book on the history of philosophy should cover that.