In October 1805 John Adams wrote to his friend Benjamin Waterhouse, an American physician and scientist:

* March 4 – Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge physician and medical professor ( smallpox vaccine pioneer ) ( d. 1846 )

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's Iguanodon statues.

The sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins erected the first lifesized models of the ( then ) newly-discovered dinosaurs and other extinct animals in the park, following the gift of a megatherium skull by Charles Darwin.

At one time or another during the period leading up to the Civil War, Brown, Clark, Benjamin Waterhouse, and Captain Samuel Barry were arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

While the original settlers are not known for certain, early records and deeds mention the following: William and Jacob Waterhouse ( of Kennebunk ), Love Roberts, Alexander Grant, Thomas Lord, Jacob Rhoades, Benjamin and Mark Goodwin ( brothers who built one of the first mills at Goodwin's Mills ), John Low ( who served as town moderator and treasurer ), John Burbank, Joseph Witten, James and William Brock, Mark Ricker, Robert Cousens, Valentine Hill, and Gershom Downs.

" Man, and the elephant " Plate from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins | Hawkins A comparative view of the human and animal frame.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins ' 1855 reconstruction of a Dicynodon as a turtle-like creature.

In 1852, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was commissioned to build a model of Megalosaurus for the exhibition of dinosaurs at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, where it remains to this day.

The first of these, the Hadrosaurus mount created by noted natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, made its debut at the Academy in 1868.

His pupils included noted sculptors George Frederic Watts, Thomas Woolner and Henry Weekes, and naturalist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins ( 8 February 1807 – 27 January 1894 ) was an English sculptor and natural history artist renowned for combining both in his work on the life-size models of dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, south London.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was born in Bloomsbury, London on 8 February 1807, the son of Thomas Hawkins, an artist, and Louisa Anne Waterhouse, the daughter of a Jamaica plantation family of apparent Catholic sympathies.

On New Year's Eve, 1853, Sir Richard Owen hosted a dinner for twenty fossil experts inside a life-size reconstruction of Iguanodon made under his direction by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.

* Benjamin Waterhouse ( 1754 – 1846 ), an American physician

* Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins ( 1807 – 1894 ), an English sculptor and natural history artist

Historical illustration of Hylaeosaurus by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1871.

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The political push to increase cooperation among the then-loyal colonies began with the Albany Congress in 1754 and Benjamin Franklin's proposed intercolonial collaboration to help solve mutual local problems themselves ; the Articles of Confederation would bear some resemblance to it.

In 1754, Benjamin Davis received a license to keep an inn on Ridge Pike at Plymouth Creek.

On March 3, 1777, Dwight married Mary Woolsey ( 1754 – 1777 ), the daughter of New York merchant and banker Benjamin Woolsey ( 1720 – 1771 ).

Benjamin Franklin had invented the lightning rod in 1752 in the United States, but it did not work well, because it was not grounded, while Diviš's apparatus in 1754 was.

Benjamin Franklin had raised this as far back as 1754 at the Albany Congress when he wrote, " That it is suppos ’ d an undoubted Right of Englishmen not to be taxed but by their own Consent given thro ’ their Representatives.

Notable editorial cartoons include Benjamin Franklin's " Join, or Die " ( 1754 ), on the need for unity in the American colonies ; " The Thinkers Club " ( 1819 ), a response to the surveillance and censorship of universities in Germany under the Carlsbad Decrees ; and E. H. Shepard's " The Goose-Step " ( 1936 ), on the rearmament of Germany under Hitler.

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

* Benjamin Smith ( 1754 – 1833 ), engraver, lived and worked first at 21 Judd Place ‚ then at 65 Ossulston Street

In 1754, Penn attended the Albany Conference alongside other Pennsylvania delegates, including Peters, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Norris, but Penn's role was primarily as an observer.

The phrase " Don't tread on me " was coined during the American Revolutionary War, a variant perhaps of the snake severed in segments labelled with the names of the colonies and the legend " Join, or Die " which had appeared first in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754, as a political cartoon reflecting on the Albany Congress.

The third Benjamin attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard College in 1754.

* Benjamin Tallmadge ( 1754 — 1835 ), a congressman from New England and a Major in the American Revolution

Colonel Benjamin Tasker, Jr. ( 1720 – October 17, 1760 ) was a politician in colonial Maryland, and Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755.

* 1916 – Benjamin Libet, American scientist ( d. 2007 )

* 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American theorist

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

* 1974 – Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

* 1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist ( d. 1941 )

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, ( 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881 ) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure.

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin ( 1997 ) – fresh look at the intellectual roots of Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's Science ( 1990 ) – Cohen, the leading specialist, has several books on Franklin's science

Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective ( 1993 ) – scholarly essays

* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

* Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 Text of biography by Rev.

* Benjamin Franklin 300 ( 1706 – 2006 ) Official web site of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary.

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.