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* 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )
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* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.
Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).
Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).
Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.
David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.
Aberdeen married firstly Lady Catherine Elizabeth ( 1784 – 1812 ), daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamilton in 1818.
1784 and Samuel
In 1784 Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was made noble by " lettres patentes " ( letters patent ) from the king Louis XVI ( a process known as noblesse de lettres ).
His grandson, Samuel Tuke ( 1784 – 1857 ) published the very influential work in 1815, Practical hints on the Economy of Pauper Lunatic Asylums and Daniel Tuke ( 1827 – 1895 ), with J. C. Bucknill, published A Manual of Psychological Medicine which, for a long period, was the standard work in the area.
After the independence of the 13 Colonies, the Scottish Episcopal church also took the step of consecrating Samuel Seabury at Aberdeen, in 1784.
Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.
The Baronetcy, of Hawkestone in the County of Shropshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1727 for the first Viscount Hill's grandfather Rowland Hill, with remainder to his cousins Samuel Hill, of Shenstone, Thomas Hill, of Tern ( whose eldest son Noel Hill was created Baron Berwick in 1784 ) and Rowland Hill, brother of Thomas.
From John Cabot's grandson, Samuel Cabot's side, Samuel Cabot Jr. ( b. 1784 in Boston ) furthered the family fortune by combining the first family staples of working in shipping and marrying money.
Samuel Fessenden ( 16 July 1784 Fryeburg, Maine – 13 March 1869 near Portland, Maine ) was an American abolitionist and Massachusetts state legislator.
Samuel Hunter Christie ( 22 March 1784 – 24 January 1865 ) was a British scientist and mathematician.
1784 and Johnson
In 1784, in recognition of his services, he was made commander of Fort Johnson, South Carolina, practically a courtesy title with a salary of $ 500 per annum.
By 1784, the Johnson family had moved to Great Crossing in Scott County, on land purchased by Johnson's father from Patrick Henry and James Madison.
In 1784, the Crown appointed Johnson to distribute crown lands ( purchased from First Nations ) along the St. Lawrence River and the north shore of Lake Ontario ( what became known as Upper Canada ) to Loyalists who had come to Canada, as some compensation for their losses in the colonies.
* Francis Barber ( c. 1735 – 1801 ), manservant of Samuel Johnson in London from 1752 until Johnson's death in 1784
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