* November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina ( 1776 – 1780, 1785 – 1787 ) ( b. 1729 )

The newly formed county was named for Richard Caswell, Governor of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780.

The bill to incorporate it was introduced by Richard Caswell, who made his home there and later served as the first Governor of the State of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780.

In 1833, Kinston briefly became Caswell, in honor of governor Richard Caswell, but the name was reverted to Kinston the following year.

Remnants of the ship have been salvaged, and are on display at Richard Caswell Park on West Vernon Ave. A climate-controlled museum is currently under construction on downtown Queen Street, with plans to move the hulk there to prevent further deterioration of the original ship's remains.

On his left flank, he placed 2, 500 untried North Carolina militia under Colonel Richard Caswell.

A friend of both North Carolina governor Richard Caswell and Franklinite leader John Sevier, Blount waffled on the Franklin issue for the next four years.

The North Carolina congressional delegation — Richard Caswell, William Hooper, and Joseph Hewes — told Jack that although they supported what had been done, it was premature to discuss a declaration of independence in Congress.

The Congress simply adopted it and elected Richard Caswell, the last president of the Congress, as acting Governor until the new legislature was elected and seated.

Richard Caswell ( August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789 ) was the first and fifth governor of the U. S. State of North Carolina, serving from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1787.

* The Story of Richard Caswell on NCGenWeb

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The assembly appointed Richard Caswell as commander-in-chief of the militia, even though the constitution assigned this responsibility to the governor.

This would later be backed up by the Director of the CIA, Richard Helms, when he specifically told Gray that Karl Wagner and John Caswell should also not be interviewed, as they were, he stated, active CIA agents at the time.

In 1778, Spaight returned to North Carolina and served as an aide to General Richard Caswell during the American Revolutionary War until 1781.

In the time after the Royal Governor Josiah Martin abdicated in 1775, he was the highest ranking official in the state, until Richard Caswell was elected president of the Fifth Provincial Congress.

When Governor Richard Caswell, with the rank of major general, took to the field at the head of these citizen-soldiers, he named Williamson to serve as the state's Physician and Surgeon General, a post Williamson held until the end of the war.

This assembly elected Richard Caswell as the state's first constitutional governor ( he had been serving as acting governor by action of the provincial congress ).

* Caswell County: Richard Moore

Shortly after his arrival in the region, North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell elevated him to the rank of colonel and made him magistrate of newly-formed Sullivan County.

For a brief time in 1776, as the head of North Carolina's Council of Safety, he was the head of the state's revolutionary government, until Richard Caswell was elected as Governor.

In March 1773, along with Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee, Henry led the Virginia House of Burgesses to adopt resolutions providing for a standing committee of correspondence.

* Richard Ketchum ( 1773 – 1845 ), political figure in New Brunswick

* Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland ( 1773 – 1840 ), Whig politician and minister

Richard Heber ( 5 January 1773 – 4 October 1833 ) was an English book-collector.

On top of the maypole are the heads of John Thomas Brunt ( 1782 – 1820 ), William Davidson ( conspirator ) | William Davidson ( 1781 – 1820 ), James Ings ( 1794 – 1820 ), Arthur Thistlewood ( 1774 – 1820 ), and Richard Tidd ( 1773 – 1820 ).

Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland PC ( 21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840 ) was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century.

* Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland ( 1773 – 1840 )

* Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland ( 1773 – 1840 )

** Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore ( 1773 – 1827 )

The land comprising Cherokee Park was originally part of a military land grant in 1773 to James Southall and Richard Charlton.

John's brother Richard Penn, Jr., was appointed governor in his place, but Richard proved to be a poor choice in the opinion of chief proprietor Thomas Penn, and so John was reappointed governor in 1773.

* Sir Richard Bacon, 7th Baronet ( Redgrave ), 8th Baronet ( Mildenhall ) ( 1695 – 1773 )

* Sir Richard Bacon, 8th Baronet ( 1695 – 1773 ) ( and succeeded the 6th Baronet of Redgrave in 1755 )

Note that both Westmoreland County, Connecticut and the proposed State of Westmoreland are unrelated to the current Westmoreland County located in southwestern Pennsylvania, which was created by an Act of the Assembly and approved by Governor of Pennsylvania Richard Penn on February 26, 1773.

In the late 18th century Oliver Goldsmith ( She Stoops to Conquer, 1773 ) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( The Rivals, 1775 ; The School for Scandal, 1777 ) revived the form.

However, according to historians Jack Greene and Richard Jellison, the currency debate was no longer really a " live issue " in 1774, due to the 1773 amendment of the Act.

* Richard Edwards ( Royal Navy officer ) (?– 1773 ), Commodore for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for 1745

Very late in the Augustan period, Oliver Goldsmith attempted to resist the tide of sentimental comedy with She Stoops to Conquer ( 1773 ), and Richard Brinsley Sheridan would mount several satirical plays after Walpole's death, but to a large degree the damage had been done and would last for a century.

The poet and writer Richard Graves described the Games in his picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote ( 1773 ) as a " heathenish assembly ".

* Brown, Richard D. " Massachusetts Towns Reply to the Boston Committee of Correspondence, 1773 ".