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It was revoked in 1654 by William Claiborne, a Virginian who had been appointed as a commissioner by Oliver Cromwell and was a staunch advocate for the Anglican Church.
After his racing career, Bold Ruler was retired to Claiborne Farms, but still was controlled by the Phipps family.
Popular both as a Triple Crown champion and in retirement, Secretariat was mourned by millions and buried at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, given the rare honor of being buried whole ; usually only the head, heart, and hooves of a winning race horse are buried, and the rest of the body is cremated.
Dolores Claiborne was adapted into a 1995 film starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Judy Parfitt, John C. Reilly and Eric Bogosian and directed by Taylor Hackford.
In King's subsequent novel, Dolores Claiborne, it is revealed that the title main character shared a telepathic connection with Jessie Burlingame on two occasions, first during the solar eclipse when Jessie was assaulted by her father, and later when she is handcuffed to the bed.
Cowboys Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran from the fight unharmed, but Ike's brother Billy Clanton was killed, along with both McLaurys.
Claiborne said only one man had a horse in the fight, and that this man was Frank, holding his own horse by the reins, then losing it and its cover, in the middle of the street.
Claiborne said Billy Clanton was supported by a window initially after he was shot, and fired some shots after sitting, with the pistol supported on his leg.
Claiborne and Allen both said it was Holliday.
" He noted that the prosecution claimed that the Cowboys ' purpose was to leave town, yet Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne did not have their weapons with them.
Billy " the Kid " Claiborne was killed in a gunfight in Tombstone in late 1882, by gunman Franklin Leslie.
" Nijinsky was retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky having been syndicated in August for $ 5, 440, 000.
Dallas is the great-great-granduncle of former U. S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, and was the uncle of George M. Bache and Alexander Dallas Bache.
Union County was formed in 1850 from portions of Grainger, Claiborne, Campbell, Anderson and Knox counties.
Claiborne County was established on October 29, 1801, created from Grainger and Hawkins counties and extended the southern boundary to Anderson County.
It was named for Virginia tidewater aristocrat William C. C. Claiborne, one of the first judges of the Superior Court and one of the first representatives in U. S. Congress from Tennessee.
Campbell County was formed in 1806 from parts of Anderson and Claiborne counties.
Claiborne County was home to a little known but profound African-American civil rights struggle during the middle of the 20th century.
At this time the area was Natchitoches Parish and later Overton became the Parish Seat of Claiborne Parish in 1836 until it moved in 1848.
It was created on February 27, 1871 from lands formerly belonging to Bienville, Bossier, and Claiborne parishes.
The parish was one of several new ones established by the state legislature during Reconstruction ; in 1873 it was formed from land that had belonged to Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson and Union parishes to create one in which newly elected representatives might have more ties to the Republican Party.

Claiborne and born
* T. H. Harris, pioneer educator and state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940, was born in the Arizona community in Claiborne Parish in 1869, the son of a Baptist minister.
Humphreys was born in Claiborne County, Mississippi, on the Bayou Pierre.
Tilghman was born in " Rich Neck Manor ", Claiborne, Maryland to James Tilghman, the son of Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, and Ann C. Shoemaker Tilghman.
William C. C. Claiborne was born in Sussex County, Virginia.
Patrick Floyd Garrett was born in Cusseta, Alabama, and grew up on a prosperous Louisiana plantation near Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, just below the Arkansas state line.
Claiborne Jackson son of Dempsey Carroll and Mary Orea " Molly " ( Pickett ) Jackson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, where his father was a wealthy tobacco farmer and slaveholder.
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs ( born March 13, 1916 ), is a United States political figure who served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See.
Andrew was born in Claiborne County, Mississippi and emigrated to Anahuac, Texas, where he opened a store.
Mahon was born to John Kirkpatrick Mahon and the former Lola Willis in the Mahon community near Haynesville in Claiborne Parish in northern Louisiana near the Arkansas state line.
Beene was born in Haynesville in Claiborne Paris in north Louisiana just south of the Arkansas state line.
Claiborne was born in McRae, Arkansas and graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in 1941.
Claiborne was born in 1749 in Brunswick County, the son of Colonel Augustine and Mary ( Herbert ) Claiborne.
Claiborne was born in St. Louis, attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1907.
Claiborne was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi.

Claiborne and Kent
The complaint claimed that Maryland had not truly been unsettled, as stated in its charter, because William Claiborne had run a trading station on Kent Island.
He directed his brothers to seek information about those who had tried to thwart the colony and to contact Claiborne to determine his intentions for the trading station on Kent Island.
William Claiborne, the trader on Kent Island, resisted the new settlement and conducted some naval skirmishes against it.
Its name can be traced back in honor of William Claiborne, a fur trader who founded an English settlement on nearby Kent Island in 1631.
In 1938 the ferry route was changed to run from Claiborne to Romancoke on Kent Island, and then Matapeake on Kent Island to Sandy Point, on the western shore.
Claiborne repeatedly attempted and failed to regain Kent Island, sometimes by force of arms, after its inclusion in the lands that were granted by a royal charter to the Calvert family, thus becoming Maryland.
To facilitate this trade, Claiborne wanted to establish a trading post on Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay, which he intended to make the center of a vast mercantile empire along the Atlantic Coast.
Claiborne found both financial and political support for the Kent Island venture from London merchants Maurice Thomson, William Cloberry, John de la Barre, and Simon Turgis.
Claiborne sailed for Kent Island on 28 May 1631 with indentured servants recruited in London and money for his trading post, likely believing Calvert's hopes defeated.
This turn of events was unfortunate for Claiborne, since the Maryland charter included all lands on either side of the Chesapeake Bay north of the mouth of the Potomac River, a region which included Claiborne's proposed trading post on Kent Island.
The Virginia Assembly, still in support of Claiborne and now including representatives of the Kent Island settlers, issued a series of proclamations and protests both before and after the granting of the Maryland charter, claiming the lands for Virginia and protesting the charter's legality.
Claiborne tried to recover it by force, but was defeated ; although he retained his settlement on Kent Island.
In May 1638, fresh from his defeat over Kent Island, Claiborne received a commission from the Providence Land Company, who were advised by his old friend Maurice Thomson, to create a new colony on Ruatan Island off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea.
Soon after, the chaos of the English Civil War gave Claiborne another opportunity to reclaim Kent Island.
Claiborne and Ingle saw an opportunity for revenge using the Parliamentary dispute as political cover, and in 1644 Claiborne seized Kent Island while Ingle took over St. Mary's.
This was rejected, but Claiborne received a final opportunity to reclaim Kent Island when he was appointed by the Puritan-controlled Parliament to a commission which was charged with suppressing Anglican disquiet in Virginia ; Virginia in this case defined as " all the plantations in the Bay of the Chesapeake.
It also proposed to Parliament new acts which would give Virginia more autonomy from England, which would benefit Claiborne as he pressed his claims on Kent Island.
Claiborne made no overt legal attempts to re-assert control over Kent Island during the commission's rule of Maryland, although a treaty concluded during that time with the Susquehannocks claimed that Claiborne owned both Kent and Palmer Islands.
In the midst of the political turmoil of the conflict over Kent Island, Claiborne married Elizabeth Butler of Essex, who would remain his wife at least through 1668.

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