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William " Parson " Brownlow, the radical publisher of the Knoxville Whig, was one of the region's leading anti-secessionists ( although he defended the practice of slavery ).
The well-established railroad brought numerous pro-secessionist and anti-secessionist speakers to the county, including Andrew Johnson, Horace Maynard, John Bell, and William " Parson " Brownlow.
In the 1840s, Jonesborough was home to the Jonesborough Whig, a polemical newspaper published by William G. " Parson " Brownlow.
It has a robust plaster-work ceiling incorporating the Brownlow crest by the London plasterer Edward Goudge, " now looked on as ye best master in England in his profession ," William Winde reported in 1690.
* James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 26 February 1858 – 18 June 1859 )
About 1610, during the Plantation and at a time when the area was sparsely populated by Gaelic peoples, the lands of Lurgan were given to the English lord William Brownlow and his family.
William Brownlow died in 1660, but the family went on to contribute to the development of the linen industry which peaked in the town in the late 17th century.
Following passage of the Catholic Relief Act, Charles Brownlow granted a site to the Roman Catholic parish priest the Reverend William O ' Brien in 1829 for the construction of a church on Distillery Hill, now known as lower North Street.
Initially it had a multi-denominational intake, offered such services as night classes and industry-relevant vocational courses, and was enthusiastically supported by William Brownlow who is thought to have brought the school to the town.
William Gannaway " Parson " Brownlow ( August 29, 1805April 29, 1877 ) was an American newspaper editor, minister, and politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.
Joseph Brownlow, an itinerant farmer, died in 1816, and Catherine Gannaway followed three months later, leaving William orphaned at the age of 10.
* G. G. Bonnyman ( 1969 ), " Some Themes in the Early Life of William G. Brownlow ", thesis, Princeton University
The Whig was a polemical American newspaper published and edited by William G. " Parson " Brownlow ( 1805 – 1877 ) in the mid-nineteenth century.
He became disenchanted when the party snubbed Clay in favor of William Henry Harrison in 1840 and by 1842, Brownlow had turned outright hostile toward Harrison's successor, John Tyler.
In 1857, the Whig quarrelled with the radical Southern Citizen, published by Knoxville businessman William G. Swan and Irish Patriot John Mitchel, and Brownlow spent at least one night parading in front of Swan's home while brandishing a revolver.
During the same period, Brownlow blasted the officers of the failed Bank of East Tennessee, namely William Churchwell, J. G. M. Ramsey, and John H. Crozier, and accused them of swindling money from low-level depositers to pay the bank's wealthy creditors.
It remained in the Brownlow family until 1853 when it was sold to the Irish antiquary, Dr William Reeves.
William and 1683
In 1683, the County of Orange, named for William of Orange ( King William III, 1650-1702 ), was formed.
Dover was founded as the court town for newly established Kent County in 1683 by William Penn, the proprietor of the territory generally known as the " Lower Counties on the Delaware.
William Penn and Indians with treaty under a large elm in 1683, as shown in the painting by Benjamin West
In what is now Penn Treaty Park, the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, is said to have entered into a treaty of peace in 1683 with the native Lenape Turtle Clan under a picturesque elm tree immortalized in a painting by Benjamin West.
In December 1680, a prominent member of the county and professed Anglican, William Stevens of Rehoboth settlement, sent a request to the Presbytery of Laggan in northern Ireland to consider sending a Presbyterian minister to Somerset county ; and the first Presbyterian minister, Reverend Francis Makemie, arrived in early 1683, quickly followed by a growing list of additional Irish Presbyterian ministers and missionaries.
In what is now Penn Treaty Park, the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, is said to have entered into a treaty of peace in 1683 with the native Lenape Turtle Clan under a picturesque elm tree immortalized in a painting by Benjamin West.
While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).
Originally referred to as " East of Islip ," the name was acquired in 1890 from the estate of William Nicoll, an English aristocrat who purchased surrounding land on the 29th of November, 1683, to erect a family residence.
These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.
In 1683, William Penn signed a treaty with the local chief and parceled the land to the Free Society of Traders.
Newtown Township traces its roots back to William Penn, who purchased from the Lenni Lenape Indians in 1683.
In 1681, William Penn planned the " first inland town west of Philadelphia " at the intersection of Goshen Road ( laid out in 1687 ) and Newtown Street Road ( laid out in 1683 ).
It was first settled by European colonists in 1683, as part of a tract of land purchased from William Penn by Major Jasper Farmar.
On December 27, 1683, Matson and a neighbor Gertro ( a. k. a. Yeshro ) Hendrickson were brought before a grand jury in overseen by the colony's proprietor, William Penn.
The area between the Pennypack and Neshaminy Creeks, encompassing Southampton Township, was conveyed by the Lenni-Lenape Chief Tamanend to William Penn by Deed dated June 23, 1683.
( 1600 – 1683 ), a member of parliament under Charles I, and another son was Sir William Monson ( c. 1607-1678 ), who was created an Irish peer as Viscount Monson of Castlemaine in 1628.
Lord William Murray, fourth son of the first Marquess, succeeded his father-in-law as Lord Nairne in 1683 but was attainted for taking part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715.
William Russell, Lord Russell ( 1639 – 1683 ), second son of the 5th Earl and 1st Duke, father of the 2nd Duke, was attainted and executed in 1683
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