* Samuel Doak, ( 1749 – 1830 ), born in Augusta County, noted Presbyterian clergyman, founder of Washington College, the first college west of the Alleghenies, noted abolitionist

Hezekiah Balch and Samuel Doak in 1780

Samuel Doak, the founder of Tusculum College, followed in 1818.

* Samuel Doak ( 1749 – 1830 ) Presbyterian minister, pioneer, founded earliest schools and churches in East Tennessee.

Quakers, who had migrated to the region from Pennsylvania in the 1790s, formed the Manumission Society of Tennessee in 1814. Notable supporters included Presbyterian clergyman Samuel Doak, Tusculum College cofounder Hezekiah Balch, and Maryville College president Isaac Anderson.

In 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, Presbyterian ministers Hezekiah Balch and Samuel Doak, both educated at the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ), were ministering to the pioneers of East Tennessee, which was then the southwestern frontier of the United States.

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

* 1816 Samuel Witherspoon Doak ( son of Samuel Doak ) founds Tusculum Academy, which operates in a log cabin adjacent to the present site of Tusculum College.

** Samuel Doak, D. D.

** Samuel Witherspoon Doak, D. D.

** Samuel Witherspoon Doak, D. D.

Samuel Witherspoon Doak built his Georgian-influenced house circa 1830.

Samuel W. Doak and his father, the Rev.

Samuel Doak, started Tusculum Academy in 1818.

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

* October 4 – Samuel Jackson Pratt, British writer, poet and actor ( b. 1749 )

Judge Samuel Sewall suggested the town change its name to Woodstock in 1690, and in 1749 the town became part of Connecticut.

Zedler also published new works such as the trade lexicon Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer Der Kaufmannschafft ( 1741 – 1743, 4 volumes and 1 supplement volume ), stock exchange laws Corpus Juris Cambialis ( Johann Gottlieb Siegels, 1742, 2 volumes ) and the Historical-Political-Geographical Atlas of the whole world ( 1744 – 1749, 13 volumes ), published under the name of the Leipzig bookseller, Johann Samuel Heinsius the Elder.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

** Samuel Boyse, Irish poet ( died 1749 )

In 1764 he moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he " kept the school " and studied theology with Samuel Haven ( Harvard College class of 1749 ).

As a critic, Sarah Fielding wrote Remarks on Clarissa in 1749, concerning the novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

* Samuel Boyse ( 1708 – 1749 ) Irish poet

In 1744 he succeeded Samuel Johnson as compiler of the parliamentary debates for the Gentleman's Magazine, and from 1746 to 1749 he contributed poems signed Greville, or H Greville, to that journal.

* Johann Samuel König, professor for mathematics and philosophy, 1744 – 1749

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

* 1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

* 986 – A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of the Gate of Trajan by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron.

* 1912 – Samuel Fuller, American director ( d. 1997 )

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

* 1991 – Samuel Larsen, American actor and singer

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist ( d. 2008 )

* 1741 – Samuel Chase, American justice of the Supreme Court ( d. 1811 )

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

Additionally, though the Chronicler's principal source is the Deuteronomistic History, coming primarily, as stated above, from the books of 2 Samuel and 1 – 2 Kings and other public records and sources ( see above ), the Chronicler also uses other biblical sources, particularly from the Pentateuch, as redacted and put together by P ( the Priestly Source ).

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

* Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1944 – 1955