Incorporated in 1765 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, it was named for Sir Samuel Cornish, a distinguished admiral of the Royal Navy.

Famous members included Theodore Dwight Weld, Lewis Tappan, James G. Birney, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster, Henry Highland Garnet, Samuel Cornish, James Forten, Charles Lenox Remond, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Robert Purvis, and Wendell Phillips.

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Samuel Penhallow ( July 2, 1665 – December 2, 1726 ) was a Cornish colonist and historian in early American.

* Samuel E. Cornish

Samuel Drew ( 6 March 1765 – 29 March 1833 ) was an Cornish Methodist theologian.

During the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson created an ironic Cornish Declaration of Independence that he used in his essay Taxation no Tyranny His irony starts:

Samuel Wallis ( 23 April 1728 – London 21 January 1795 ) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world.

At Vauxhall, Sir Samuel Morland built a fine room, anno 1667, the inside all of looking-glass, and fountains very pleasant to behold, which is much visited by strangers: it stands in the middle of the garden, covered with Cornish slate, on the point of which he placed a punchinello, very well carved, which held a dial, but the winds have demolished it.

In June 1762, Rear-Admiral Samuel Cornish received secret royal orders for an expedition, which he communicated to the authorities at Calcutta.

* Samuel Foote, Cornish dramatist and actor

Henry Samuel Boase FRS ( 1799 – 1883 ) was an Cornish geologist.

Arthur Tappan stirred up a row by sitting in his pew at Samuel Cox's Laight Street Church with Samuel Cornish, an acquaintance and mixed-race clergyman.

Founded by Peter Williams, Jr. and other free black men, it was published weekly in New York City from 16 March 1827 to 28 March 1829, the journal was edited by John Russwurm and co-editor Samuel Cornish, who contributed only through the 14 September 1827 issue.

* Freedom's Journal Magazine, " the modern-day journal inspired by the 1827 African American newspaper, of the same name, is a tribute to the courage and foresight of Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm, co-founders of America ’ s Black Press.

* 1740 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson ( d. 1795 )

Ashe County was named in honor of Samuel Ashe, a Revolutionary patriot, a superior court judge, and the Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

In 1795, following the signing of the Treaty of Greenville which provided assurances to Ohio settlers that they would be protected from Indian " intrusions ", Samuel and Rachel Dument Pierson established the first log home in the area near Deer Park.

Subsequently the translator identified himself as Moses Samuel of Liverpool ( 1795 – 1860 ), who obtained a copy of the 1625 Hebrew edition and became convinced that the core of this work truly was the self-same Book of the Upright referenced in Hebrew scriptures.

In 1795 the church saw the marriages of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Sarah Fricker and Robert Southey to Sarah's sister Elizabeth.

* Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795 ).

Johns Hopkins was born on May 19, 1795, to Samuel Hopkins ( 1759 – 1814 ) of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and Hannah Janney ( 1774 – 1864 ), of Loudoun County, Virginia.

In 1795, Sir Samuel Bentham, inspector of dockyards of the Royal Navy, and designer of six new sailing ships, argued for the adoption of " partitions contributing to strength, and securing the ship against foundering, as practiced by the Chinese of the present day ".

* October 29-James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson ( died 1795 )

Ann Emily married the Honorable Ross Cuthbert ; Richard Rush ( 1780 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Catherine Elizabeth Murray ; Mary married Major Thomas Manners ; James became a medical doctor and married Eugenia Frances Heister and Elizabeth Upshur Dennis ; Benjamin did not marry, moved to New Orleans, LA ; Julia ( 1792 – 1860 ) married Henry Jonathon Williams Esquire ; Samuel ( 1795 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Nancy Anne Wilmer ; William became a doctor and married Elizabeth Fox Roberts.

* Samuel A. Smith ( 1795 – 1861 ), U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania

On 24 December 1795, Samuel Ireland published his own book about the papers, a lavishly illustrated and expensively produced set of facsimiles and transcriptions of the papers called Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( the book bears the publication date 1796 ).

* Samuel Lyman, Congressman from Massachusetts in 1795 – 1797

Samuel Ashe ( March 24, 1725 – February 3, 1813 ) was the ninth Governor of the U. S. State of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

In 1795 some factions of the Federalist Party sought to promote Sumner as a candidate for governor, but he was not formally nominated, and Governor Samuel Adams was reelected.

In 1795, Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham was appointed by the Admiralty, the only Inspector General of Naval Works with the task of continuing this modernisation, and in particular the introduction of steam power and mechanising the production processes in the dockyard.

The original tower was built in 1795 to the design of Trinity House architect Samuel Wyatt.

Samuel Bishop ( 21 September 1731 – 17 November 1795 ) was a poet born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors ' School and Oxford University.

Williston Seminary was founded by the Honorable Samuel Williston ( 1795 – 1874 ) in February 1841 ; the school opened that December.

John Collins ( June 8, 1717March 4, 1795 ), was the third Governor of the U. S. state of Rhode Island, born in Newport, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Collins.

It was commanded by Colonel Andrew Van Swearingen ( 1741 – 1793 ) and later by his son-in-law, Captain Samuel Brady ( 1756 – 1795 ), the famous leader of Brady's Rangers.

Samuel Jordan Cabell ( December 15, 1756 – August 4, 1818 ) was an American Revolutionary war officer and Democratic-Republican United States Congressman from 1795 to 1803.

* 1784 Samuel Doak establishes Martin's Academy ( renamed Washington College Academy in 1795 ).